A study of the aphasics expressive process under the jungian psychological focus

Abstract

This article describes a exploratory research that applies a plastic expressive technique in expression aphasics, victims of ischemic stroke in the left hemisphere. Objetive: Investigates the intervention results through case studies based on the clinical method and qualitative analysis, with the theoretical focus on jungian psychology. Method: It uses tests before and after the intervention, such as external criterion. The projective thechnique House-Tree-Person - HTP, shows consonant results with the ones observed on expressive process; the emotional perception test International Affective Picture System - IAPS and its response record system Self-Assessment Manikin - SAM, enables to launch hypothesis on the emotional transformation of participants; the European Brain Injury Questionnaire - EBIQ, offers substratum to discuss the transformation of the subjects own vision of their problems. Through the Collective Subject Discourse method, identifies stages of the expressive process with contents common to the group. Results: The results of the case studies, the DSC and assessment tools reveal that, in the end, the participants, without exception, were strengthened, closer to their own reality and enriched in touch with themselves and with the outside world. Conclusion: Assessment tools to confirm by ticking the therapeutic value of the proposed technique and suggesting that this form of intervention may be helpful in the process of rehabilitation of aphasic.