Abstract
This article is the result of an experience of work at Associação Fluminense de Reabilitação . The work in the field of rehabilitation is performed by a multidisciplinary team and is based on an adaptive model and normative practice. Given that each individual has a subjective relationship with his own body, and then, reacts and deals in a particular way with illness, psychoanalysis is part of the attempt to give a listening and a way to address the patient not looking at the sick person, but at the subject, the individual. The physical damage presents itself to the subject as a loss of the object and, as a result, it is not hard to see psychic reactions ranging from grief to depression. In this sense, the role of the psychoanalyst in this field ends up favoring the process of elaboration of losses, as well as producing displacements about a possible freezing and restriction of the identity of the subject to the significants: “sick” or “disabled” person.
Psychoanalysis; Physical Rehabilitation; Institution; Disabilities; Grief