FEAR AS A FIGURE: GESTAL COMPREHENSION ABOUT PANICO SYNDROME AND ITS CLINICAL MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Panic Syndrome is a state of intense fear and anxiety that reflects in visible and non-visible manifestations, compromising the individual's well-being and healthy relationship with the world. Gestalt therapy, an approach based on a phenomenological-existential philosophy of understanding, brings valuable tools in the understanding of this disease, in that it perceives the relation man / world as totality, advocating a holistic vision. In this sense, the study aims to address Gestalt-therapy's meanings about Panic Syndrome, seeking to understand its symptoms from the Gestalt optics and reflecting on its clinical management. The methodology used and qualitative approach, carried out through bibliographic research in the basic literature of Gestalt-therapy and theoretical production of Professor and Clinical Psychiatrist specialized in Anxiety Disorders, Dr. Geraldo Jose Ballone. The main focus of the gestaltic approach is the adjustment of the neurotic type, seeking its understanding of the health / disease process, the symptoms of Panic Syndrome and therapeutic intervention, based on the prism of this approach. The results of the research indicate that despite being an arduous, intense and life-compromising condition, the Panic Syndrome is amenable to treatment and overcoming. Gestalt therapy, with its theoretical and technical contribution, becomes a useful and valuable tool in the understanding and treatment of this disorder, in that it throws new perspectives on the man / world relationship and its health / illness process. It invites the psychotherapist to work to provide support in rebuilding the healthy man / environment relationship and the subject's balance in psychic suffering. As for Panic Syndrome, Gestalt therapy facilitates the process of awareness and redemption of that individual's potentials and autonomy, allowing him to face and confront his fears in the here-and-now. Keywords: gestalt-therapy; disease; anxiety; Panic Syndrome.