Mulheres mastectomizadas e a vivência da dança do ventre

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Rafaella Brito e
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15068
• topic: Dança do ventre; Mastectomia; Relação com o corpo; Belly dance; Mastectomy; Relation to the body; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

This thesis, which is the result of a personal and professional experience with dance, as well as of an interest in studies and iniciatives in the field of Psycho-oncology, consisted of a survey based on the theoretical framework of Gestalt therapy and was aimed to understand how mastectomized women experience belly dancing and how it affects the relation to theri own bodies. The relevance of this study is related to the need for expansion of therapeutic strategies focused on health promotion during the breast cancer post-treatment of mastectomized women. It comprises a qualitative research during which 8 sessions took place, 2 times a week for 1 hour and a half each, making use of the movements of belly dance. After each session, the participating women were requested to answer in writing the following questions: How have you experienced belly dancing? How did you feel? . At the outcome of the 8 sessions, a group interview was conducted to the end of discussing and learning the meaning of each woman s experience. The analysis and discussion were developed based on the participants reports, employing the phenomenological method and using theorists in Psychology and Oncology as references, as well as authors working in the dialogue between both domains. It was possible to identify a plethora of contributions of belly dance for the care of mastectomized women: dancing as an instrument of pleasure; the demystification of female identity attached to the breast only; music and movement as a means to be in touch with femininity and sensuality; the development of a more accurate body perception; and belly dancing as a facilitator in the process of reframing and discovering new ways of being and existing, in order to obtain from the participants a more active stance with regard to the ongoing difficulties. It can be concluded that belly dancing is a possible therapeutic approach in the rehabilitation of mastectomized women