Hearing and speech pathology permeated by psychoanalysis

Abstract

Throughout the following research it has been analyzed the way Psychoanalysis might contribute to the Speech Therapist Clinical Listening before the language disorder named Phonological Disorder. A descriptive-qualitative methodology was used. Eighteen pairs of relative/legal responsible-child diagnosed with having Speech Disorder and sent to the Language and Speech Study Center of the Speech Therapy Service at the Federal University of Santa Maria. The used instruments were: psychological interview with the legal responsible and the Patient’s Record File and Speech Therapy Screening Report. They were compared according to the child’s health records. The results show that psychoanalysis might improve the Clinical Listening conveyed to subjective aspects, through the implementation of meanings which set the child’s history; the switch from a conception of language as object into a conception of language as function; and the transferential issues between patient and therapist in the Speech Therapy Service.