Hermenêutica da saúde: contribuições para o saber-fazer do psicólogo hospitalar

Abstract

This research proposes to investigate the philosophical hermeneutic understanding of health and disease phenomena as opposed to biological medical perspective; thereby identifying contributions of philosophical hermeneutic perspective to the practice of health psychologist. Psychological operations in hospital, today, has required an understanding of healthcare phenomena beyond the physical, biological aspects of the human being as focused on a guided activity in biological medical parameters, covering issues related to existential subjects from a perspective that points for the totality of being. In this sense, philosophical hermeneutics proposed by Hans-Georg Gadamer develops a criticism of the notion of modern scientific knowledge in its methodological primacy of reaching experiences of truths, and in opposition articulates a new paradigm for understanding human phenomena, namely the ontological-hermeneutic. Besides Truth and Method, the research takes as hermeneutic foundation of reference collection of texts entitled The hidden nature of health, in which Gadamer discusses the phenomena of health and disease in a hermeneutic-existential and historical perspective, confronting so to set up from the medical-biological model in a reductionist perspective. To achieve the stated objectives, is taken as a starting point the psychological know-how in hospital context. Subsequently, it presents a characterization and criticism of the biological medical model, highlighting the scientific rationality while support this paradigm. It emphasizes the contributions of gadameriano thought for the health field, trying to think these thoughts in proximity to the practice of health psychologist. It is understood that is between paradoxes and challenges for a doing that can accommodate the human subjectivity is that the psychologist must understand health phenomena and illness in a different perspective, extending the look and discussion on this topic by checking with its practice a place specific, peculiar because of their training focusing on the human phenomenon, considering the existential of subject’s ill.