O Impacto da Cirurgia Bariátrica na Relação de Casal: Uma Perspectiva dos Cônjuges Masculinos

Abstract

The bariatric surgery, or weight loss surgery, refers to a group of surgical techniques that contributes to drastic reduction of the weight. Destined to bearers of morbid obesity, it aims to remove the person from a life risk. Today it has become a great medical investment and instantaneous solution for everything that is associated with obesity. The present research had an exploratory nature and it aimed to study the impact of the weight loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, under the spouses' perspective. They were questioned about aspects of couple's relationship concerning to first dates, engagement, marriage, children, leisure and work, making a parallel of these points after the surgical submission. Three interviews of this clinical sort were accomplished, in which the important theoretical criteria to the analysis were: object relationships, transfer, identification and contemporary condition. Nowadays, the concern with the beauty became synonym of being thin and it has been pushing people to do whatever it takes to get the perfect body model. The solid demand of the culture and media on behalf of the beauty, mainly in what is referred to the feminine body, makes a big range of women run over to infinites means and treatments that keep them young and thin, close to a skeletal model. The weight loss surgery was found as a magic formula to solve a problem with multiple dimensions and, therefore, leaves gaps and needs of research. In a symbolic point of view, this research aimed to find out the husbands sense of the surgery and also how a relationship would be carried out between a couple. It is noticed a character in a demand relationship, what means, in other words, that the person is living intensely conflicting situations between narcissism and Oedipus Complex. It was noticed that the surgery for them would remit many ideas related to fantasies of loss, such as mother-baby separation, child-adult separation, thin-obese separation and husband-woman separation. To separate isn t easy. It is really to perform a surgery and, in this case, a surgery between two people.