Algumas contribuições psicanalíticas acerca da síndrome do pânico

Abstract

This monograph aims to discover how panic disorder can be understood from the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis. To achieve this goal, we conducted an exploratory survey of bibliographical character, which consisted of the initial survey of papers published in Brazil that address panic disorder from a psychoanalytic framework and elect such work as our object of study, seeking to present and discuss the main conclusions that these authors come. Our research showed us that there is no consensus among the various authors in order to understand this phenomenon, but it is still in Freudian metapsychology, enriched by post-Freudian authors such as Lacan, Laplanche and Silvia Bleichmar, that psychoanalysts are the substrate for their formulations. In these, the concepts of distress, instinct and repression are revealed fundamental. Our studies also showed us that panic is a clinical manifestation that can be presented in various tables and with different origins, which explains the differences found between the authors studied in their way of understanding the psychopathology, but otherwise requires the analyst to care to fit their theoretical framework and its technique to each patient. We conclude, finally, that says differently than the dominant psychopathological discourse, is history and psychic life of each patient we should look for the elements that allow us to understand their suffering. It is noteworthy that this work appears as the first steps of a research that aims to pave the way for an expansion of its sources and, consequently, the analysis of the phenomenon of panic from psychoanalytic theory, can be used to introduce the student psychoanalysis in the study of panic disorder and other psychopathology of contemporaneity.