title: [Psychological symptoms in a group of climacteric women, before and after a psychotherapeutic process].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Two of each three women in their menopause present climacterical syndrome, showing frequently psychological symptoms, which is translated in diminution of the personal satisfaction, which generates the necessity of specialized attention.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To know the presence and frequency of psychological symptoms, before and after a psychotherapeutic process with a psychodynamic approach, in a group of women in their menopause.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample consisted of 41 women divided in two groups, with pre and post application of the survey of symptoms, group 1 received psychotherapy and group 2 did not, although it required it, for this reason it was considered the control. The psychotherapy consisted of 17 sessions and the used techniques most frequently were: confrontation, clarification and interpretation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Differences in the diminution as in the absence of symptoms were observed as much after the psychotherapeutic process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The psychoanalytic psychotherapy is functional in this type of patients for the diminution and in some cases the disappearance of psychological symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Psicología, Instituto Nacionalal de Perinatología. alceva1964@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: Evangelina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Aldana
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eugenia Gómez
authors.forename: Francisco A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gaviño
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002979:Climacteric / Q000523:psychology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes