Clinical listening: analysis of the symbolic language of people with intestinal ostomy

Abstract

The body can be understood from a symbolic perspective; through representations that embrace language, especially symbolic, whose attentive listening is important for understanding the dimension of suffering. OBJECTIVE: This article aims to analyse the modal verbs will, power and duty in ostomized people everyday speech, in order to understand the mental process and the lived experience. METHOD: In this clinical-qualitative study, the data were collected through open interviews, submitted to thematic analysis. The subjects were six people with intestinal ostomy being followed up at a University hospital in Brazil. Inclusion criteria: being a user of the stomatherapy service of the hospital in question; having an intestinal stoma (permanent or temporary); accept to participate in the study; sign the Free and Informed Consent Form; be over 18 years old. Exclusion criteria: not feeling physically and / or psychically fit to participate. Research approved by the CEP of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Brasília, document nº 033/12. RESULTS: From the analysis two categories emerged: 1) The biological body: it deals with the experience lived in the material effective body and, 2) The lived body: it treats experience lived and felt in the erotic-libidinal body. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: In all the cases presented, the modal verbs marked the living movement. The qualitative method allows the signification of the ordinary language configuring possibilities for the praxis of the care.