BODY IMAGE AND OBESITY: A CASE STUDY

Authors

  • ANA PAULA KNACKFUSS FREITAS SILVEIRA
  • ROSEMARY INÁCIO VIANA

Keywords:

body image, obesity, psychological adaptation.

Abstract


The way the subject relates to your body, makes you create a body image that for obese can acquire multiple meanings. The aim of this descriptive study was to understand the changes involved when it comes to body image, after bariatric surgery, 01 (one) male patient, aged 24, from the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre - RS attended the Psychology Service linked to the Bariatric Surgery Program, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) in the period 2010 to 2014 With the application of a semi-structured interview used during psychological assessment. The results indicate that the issues related to sexuality that were emerging in a period marked by internal and external conflicts, and the characteristic identify formation of adolescence, were so mobilisers for patient that obesity through its history as a tamponade of anguish that these issues would bring, however obesity could whithewash these conflicts. In this sense, the therapeutic process must respect the time of the subject, in which accept your (new) image, means accepting yourself .

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TRABALHOS PUBLICADOS