El psicoanálisis aplicado como alternativa para el trabajo psicológico en el Hospital Universitario de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The following research paper seeks to analyze the alternative possibilities that psychologists with psychoanalytic orientation can find for their clinical practice within the hospital field, through the applied psychoanalysis. Considering that the clinical practice developed inside the State public health is guided by the imperative of mental health. Therefore, the institutional practices are harshly framed with protocols, guidelines, and care routes that delimit and enclose the professional practice of the psychologist. However, being aware that every patient attends to an appointment with a discomfort and a particular demand and requires an attention beyond the protocols; from the applied psychoanalysis it is proposed to enable a clinic based on one-on-one. Thus, on the basis of a clinical vignette case study related to addiction and grief thematic, it is pretended to expose the clinical approaches that a psychologist oriented by psychoanalysis can achieve in a hospital, when the direction of the cure is guided by the patient’s symptom and not by the institutional demand.