A dialogue between real life and the children's literature: a reading experience in the perspective of the production of meaning

Abstract

Introduction: Over time, the term reading has been conceptualized in a polysemic way, and its meaning depends on the approach to be understood. In this study, we focus on the conciliatory perspective. In this perspective, text and reader are in a constant interaction. Thus, reading is interacting with the text and producing meanings. Based on this meaning, we seek in our study an interlocution with the technique of bibliotherapy, understood as a therapy through books.
Objective: To recaracterize the illness process of an infant oncological patient through the use of bibliotherapy, in order to defocalize the disease with the insertion of the ludic through children's literature.
Methodology: The research is of a qualitative nature, classified in terms of procedures as an Intervention Research. It has descriptive characteristics and is associated with the cartographic method. With a female child (11 years old), diagnosed with a malignant pelvic neoplasm, in an advanced stage. We also used drawing as a dialog promoter between the professionals involved in intervention and the patient.
Results: The proposed reading allowed our interlocutor to not only experience her history in her own way, but also resignify it.
Conclusions: We can conclude by emphasizing that we are no longer the same, but others of us, provoked by "othering" produced in each encounter