Story of an experience of psychotherapic attendance with groups of obeses

Abstract

The obesity currently is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO), a
problem of public health, had to the diverse illnesses associates to the weight
increase, amongst them the diabetes mellitus, arterial high blood pressure and
rheumatic illnesses. For beyond an aesthetic question, one became important to
determine which the percentage of corporal fat is associated with a high morbidmortality.
Considered a chronic illness, with returns, of significant prevalence and
power of morbid, the obesity is caused by diverse factors. To the psychologist an
understanding is requested, concerning the emotional aspects associates to the
weight increase, as well as to lose weigth process. The inclusion of the subjects in
said "homogeneous" groups, as for example groups of patients with chronic illnesses
it seems to occur through an identification around the illness. In the case of the
obesity, the ideal of the group seems to structuralize itself around the ideal of the
lean body and to the series of subsequent identifications. We will approach an
experience of psychological attendance the groups of patients with obesity, bringing
fragments of sessions to think group practical ours from theories and techniques
based on the psychoanalytic psychotherapy.