UM ESTUDO SOBRE AS PROPRIEDADES DA ESCRITA ENQUANTO INSTRUMENTO DE EXPRESSÃO DO INDIVÍDUO

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ABSTRACT: This research refers to writing as the psychic expression of women who belong to a therapeutic group at a public health service. The goal of the research is to investigate the adequacy and efficiency of writing as a way to express inner or even unconscious psychical contents, parallel to speech, which is the most tradicional instrument used in psychotherapy. A questionnaire, untitled Auto-Retrato (Self-Portrait), was used for evoking the writing by the women. This instrument of data collection is presented as well as a preliminary analysis, in the light of semantic nets, of the written text by one subject.