To get sick with the child: the ways of being authentic in the experience of a gestational clinical treatment

Abstract

Introduction: In the phenomenological-existential perspective, to understand the being-sick requires a deep plunge into unconditional acceptance to the professional of the health team. Then, the psychologist must create conditions for reflection on the meaning of illness. Objective: Understanding the speeches of pregnant women in the process of hospitalization for clinical treatment, into the situation of falling-ill-with-the- child, in a public maternity hospital in the city of Manaus. Methods: Qualitative research, through health psychology and along the lines of existential phenomenology, rescued feelings and meanings from initial interviews. The audience was fourteen pregnants in medical treatment in a public hospital in the city of Manaus. The categories of analysis were based according to the book “Being and Time” by Martin Heidegger, which he outlines the concept about authenticity of being-in-the-world. Results: This study demonstrated the importance of health psychology inside a maternity hospital, as well as the specific relevance of monitoring of psychological demands on beds of clinical treatment. Conclusion: Through the reports collected, the person was seen in its entirety, not only his illness. Authenticity existed when they proved to be launched into the world, from the understanding of a being-sick with a becoming-to-be-healthy.