Um estudo sobre a esclerose multipla a luz da teoria winnicottiana

Abstract

This paper intend to open the possibility to discuss the Multiple Sclerosis in the hall of the psychosomatic illnesses taking as references the point of view of D.W. Winnicott about the psychosomatic relationship. Thus, this study will allow the reader to get in touch with several aspects of Multiple Sclerosis as it history, etiology, diagnosis, treatments, prognostics and psychological. This study also focus on the basic concepts of matureness theory, elaborated by Winnicott, reflecting about his patients suffering from psychosomatic illness. Not only are the Winnicott´s patients important to try to understand the perturbations of the psycho-soma in the multiple sclerosis as the revision of Jacqueline du Pré´s biography, which died due the aggravation of the illness. The confrontation of her personal history with the theory elaborated by Winnicott helps to illustrated what have been studied in this paper. After these analyses, it is considered the idea what in the base of all psychosomatic disorder there is a split. So we can infer that split is also one of the important points of the Multiple Sclerosis, that way the geneses of the disease may be related to gaps on the process of psycho-soma integration. Finally, the necessity of more studies on that subject is essentially to help those patients to have a better life quality. At last, the main objective of this research is considered achieved as it opened a new door of possibilities to try to understand of the multiple sclerosis