This thesis, the fruit of a personal and professional experience with art and of the
interest in studies and actions in the field of oncology, was a search-intervention based on
phenomenology and gestalt art therapy grounds, which had the purpose of identifying the art
therapy care contributions to women in breast cancer treatment, from the meanings given by
the participants to the experience with the creative doing. The importance of this study was
related to the need for expansion of therapeutic strategies, focused on health promotion of
individuals on cancer treatment. Therefore, it was taken into account the existence of
psychosocial factors leading to conflict and suffering for women during the cancer diagnosis
and treatment, and the female condition of submission and confrontation of breast cancer
throw history. The work has also referred to the therapeutic functions of art and the
importance of art therapy in oncology. The research was realized on the Núcleo de
Acolhimento do Enfermo Egresso- NAEE, where the methodology called Creative Workshop
was applied, consisting on the following stages: awareness, free expression, speech drafting,
language transpose and evaluation. For collecting data, the patients speech and the women’s
creations were used. Seven women in treatment for breast cancer participated the 8 sessions of art therapy,
where they underwent experiences on the body and expressive activities. The qualitative type
analyses established itself on the basis of expressions by informants, manifest through verbal
and plastic language during the creation. The atmosphere of listening and reception, favored
during the workshops, permeated the therapeutic process of this search-intervention,
contributing to the response of women about the experience on workshops. It was possible to
identify many art therapy contributions on the care of women with breast cancer, related to
the possibility of interaction with the other, the improvement of the expression capacity the
meaning and re-meaning the lived through the contact with creative potential of themselves
and the participants acquisition of a more active posture for facing the difficulties of life.
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