Do sintoma ao sentido : reflexões a partir do acompanhamento de uma adolescente com tricotilomania

Abstract

This study aims to reflect on the condition of trichotillomania and adolescence from different perspectives, using the history of the clinical follow-up of an adolescent with trichotillomania as an illustration and basis for the questions that will be made below. It can be noted that the positivist and deterministic ways of approaching the trichotillomania condition and the adolescence period often take into account objective aspects, such as statistical data, generalizing characteristics such as chronological age and body development. Thus this paper intent to present the existential phenomenological perspective as an expansion of possibilities on such themes, considering that such perspective, in addition to the characteristics mentioned above, also takes into account aspects such as the historical-temporal and relational character of the human being as well as its uniqueness, where the symptom is not treated as an enemy to be fought, but as a possible way of being and expressing the person at a given time.