Psychological emergency attendance through a psychoanalytical listening

Abstract

The psychological emergency attendance configures itself as a psychological intervention implemented in Brazil from a humanist framework, theoretical approach that still prevails in the literature on the subject. It organizes itself like a kind of clinical intervention that offers a punctual service, accomplished the closest possible to the individual's necessity, whereby it's possible to make, besides a reception, also an enlightenment about the person's demand. Considering the importance and relevance of this practice, it was sought to offer it in 2015 in a psychology school service of a public university. In this scenario, the objective of this paper was to discuss the practice of psychological emergency attendance held through an extension project, emphasizing the psychoanalytical listening undertaken in this context. It is considered that, in psychological emergency attendance, the psychologist eventually is faced with the listening of the unexpected, the unconscious that insists to be heard. It is expected, therefore, that at the same time it is heard, the individual who speaks can listen to himself and that this listening can somehow contribute to his repositioning or re-signifying the reason that made him seek care.