FIBROMYALGIA FROM PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

Abstract

Recently, some researches have been using the theoretical framework of Psychoanalysis in order to shed light on the subjective aspects of fibromyalgia. The purpose in this study, through the development of a literature review, was to establish a brief overview of scientific publications disseminated in various Latin American vehicles and that address fibromyalgia from psychoanalytic perspective. Therefore, electronic searches were developed in the databases SciELO-Brazil, LILACS, PEPsic, and Psique. The publications located were selected using criteria related to the focus and the tipo. All selected publications were fully retried and assessed in function of a set of dimensions. Were located 505 publications in total. Excluding the repetitions, 376 publications remained. Of these, however, only 13 constituted the corpus of this study. The large number of eliminations was expected due to the range of the search strategy used. It was verified that publications deriving from theoretical-clinical studies were predominant and that diversified authors were referred to. The results of the publications are not conclusive with regard to the possibility that fibromyalgia is a variant of the hysteria molded by the contemporary subjectivation processes or has a transnosographic background. However, was recurrent the association between the syndrome and the early traumatic experiences, mainly related to sexuality. Thus, this study permits mapping the knowledge produced on fibromyalgia in the light of Psychoanalysis and appoints possibilities for further research, which show to be necessary in view of the lack of publications currently available.