PSYCHOTHERAPY AS SELF-CARE PRACTICES AMONG PSYCHOLOGISTS WITH DIFFERENT AREAS OF ACTING

Abstract

The route of professional acting and degree in psychology is psychically mobilizing, that can be risky to the mental health of the person. In that perspective, the subjectivity and mental situation become tools to act, since they can interfere directly in it practicing. This paper proposes to discuss the exposition to the risk of mental diseases in psychology students, starting on their professional profiles, and discuss psychotherapy as protection to the mental health diseases, applied on Psychologists of the state of Bahia, Brazil. All the people studied are registered on the Regional Board of Psychology, section Bahia. They were 4.066 Psychologists contacted, by electronic ways, and 163 answered to a questionnaire, an instrument semi-structured and autoapplicable. The data was evaluated on SPSS 19. The results indicate the predominantly female population, averaging 32 years old and in the beginning of the career; 66% (66 persons) feels that they need to go to a Psychologist, it shows that the major of psychology can be a mobilizer; 95% (96 persons) consider that they live with psychological suffering in their professional acting; 94,5% (86 persons) feels that this can be an impact on their careers but only 33% (34 persons) declare openly that they do some kind of psychotherapy. From that, it is important to discuss the psycho-vision of that professional and the psychotherapy as a strong manner to prevent and prepare professionally the Psychologist.