Compreendendo a experiência de pessoas portadoras de transtorno mental: histórias de vidas severinas repletas de possibilidades

This study aims to understand the experience of people suffering from mental disorder. The patients are enrolled in a mental health ambulatory clinic in the city of Natal (RN). Mental disorders are growing rapidly in the contemporary world and are a source of intense mental suffering. Besides patients being strongly marked by a history of isolation and prejudice, they have been the target of real atrocities committed in the name of preservation of a supposed normality. The understanding and treatment of this disorder is influenced by cultural and historical inferences, depending on the period in which it is experienced. Semi-directed Interviews were conducted with a group of users, with the emphasis on giving voice to their uniqueness and individuality, highlighting how each one perceives his or her own experience. These were recorded and later transcribed by identifying the core of meanings. The results were analyzed under the gaze of the Humanist Phenomenology Existential perspective, which aims to unravel the phenomenon, without truths from volatility, highlighting the existence of the mental disorder as a way of living, being permeated by suffering mental and influenced by social problems, assuming contours very particular to each individual. Some progress has been perceived, even by users, with respect to the change of paradigm in the way of care, but still there is a consistent emphasis on medical and drug use. The changes point to the need for offering services to replace the asylum hospital model, and in addition to accept the bearer of mental disorder as a citizen, a bearer of rights who should be accepted and respected by society. Despite the pain expressed and its close liaison with suicide, their reports are full of perspectives and attitudes of confrontation facing life, pointing to new possibilities to be, recreating itself

Por trás das grades :reflexões sobre a experiência do ser apenado na situação de privação de liberdade

This research has resulted of investigations appeared from our work experience as psychologist in a prison of the state Rio Grande do Norte. It deals with the meeting with prisoner in the search for the rescue of the human being dignity, discovering the being that finds annulled by backwards of the prison. The current debate on the prisoners in Brazil has as focus the creation of efficient strategies in the combat to the criminal acts, not being worried in understanding the historical and social conditions in the context in which such acts develop. Our objective was to reach an understanding of the experience of the prisoner in the situation of freedom deprivation in Natal (RN) city. Its significant social relevance meets in emphasized thematic which intends to be revealing of the not-said one of these citizens. The epistemological space and the vision of adopted human being support in the humanist ideas of the Centered Approach in the Person and construct self, central nucleus of the personality theory proposal by Carl Rogers. We opt to the phenomenological method as way of access to the singularity of the experience of each one of the participants, supporting us in the strategy of the narrative as expression of the lived world. The results had pointed that the investigated experience is through suffering, that is, the way to be in the world of prisoner in the situation of freedom deprivation is felt by him/her as difficult to support. This reality is had by him/her as difficult to control, having a negative emotional repercussion for the self, leading the citizen to the alienation of his/her existential flow in these circumstances. The reflections produced in this work take us to consider that the punishment practices on behalf of a normalization of the behavior, linked to the recovery idea, do not meet to the intention of the arrests, that come demonstrating to the inefficacy of the objectives shown in the law as well as the loss of the human being dignity

A clínica que se vive: reflexões sobre a prática da Psicologia clínica na contemporaneidade

The increasing search for the psychological attendance, express in the waiting list in the clinics, clinic-school and in the private clinics, beyond the increase of the choice of psychology as professional career among the pre-college students, allows us to reflect about the place that is occupied by the Psychology, nowadays. The main focus of this study is the clinical Psychology, an area of psychology. The interest in to deepen the reflection regarding of the place that the psychologist and his acting had been assumed in our society, emerged from our own actuation as clinical psychologist. Reflections concerning the suffering of man of our time, accompanying our inquietude while researcher and made us question about the actuation of clinical psychology, nowadays. This research aimed to understand how the clinical psychologists perceive their practice, attempting to get appointments regarding of what is to be clinical psychologist in contemporaneity, more specifically, in the face of the psychic suffering. Based on a phenomenological perspective of research were accomplished semi-structured interviews and a discussion group with clinical psychologists. From the obtained results, we arrived to the following conclusions: a) the most of participants considered the academic formation of the psychologist insufficient and far from social reality; b) the speeches revealed that there is still a relation between the practice of clinical psychologist and the medical model of attendance. Nevertheless, was observed a change in the new psychologists conception of clinic, but is still in development; c) in the most of speeches, we founded consensus about the idea of that the social context which the contemporaneous world lives, had generated new demands of suffering; d) the clinical listening is considered the specificity of the clinical psychologist. We believe that this study had been contributed to fomenting the discussion about the academic formation of clinical psychologist and, the concepts and models of clinic that now base the actuation of the professionals that are inserted on the work market

Método intercessor e saúde mental – construindo saberes a partir da práxis

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros de uma Instituição de Saúde Pública

O presente estudo teve como objetivos investigar a opinião do enfermeiro sobre a Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem, verificar os efeitos da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem na organização do trabalho do enfermeiro e identificar se a Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem causa sofrimento psíquico nesses profissionais. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, realizada com 22 enfermeiros que atuam em uma instituição pública de saúde do grande ABCD, no Estado de São Paulo. Foram utilizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, por meio de gravação dos depoimentos. A análise dos dados foi realizada buscando apreender os conteúdos representacionais sobre os efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros. As categorias de análise sobre a influência da SAE nos sujeitos foram: a)conhecimento sobre a SAE: tem conhecimento e tem pouco conhecimento; b)opinião sobre a SAE: favorável e parcialmente favorável; c)desenvolvimento da SAE no contexto do trabalho: ocorre parcialmente e não ocorre; d)influência da Implementação da SAE no desempenho das tarefas: afeta e não afeta; e)ocorrência de sofrimento psíquico na Implementação da SAE : há e não há expressões diretas de sofrimento psíquico. Os dados revelaram que os efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros causam sofrimento psíquico, resultantes das condições de trabalho inadequadas para promover a Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem.

Efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros de uma Instituição de Saúde Pública

O presente estudo teve como objetivos investigar a opinião do enfermeiro sobre a Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem, verificar os efeitos da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem na organização do trabalho do enfermeiro e identificar se a Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem causa sofrimento psíquico nesses profissionais. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, realizada com 22 enfermeiros que atuam em uma instituição pública de saúde do grande ABCD, no Estado de São Paulo. Foram utilizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, por meio de gravação dos depoimentos. A análise dos dados foi realizada buscando apreender os conteúdos representacionais sobre os efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros. As categorias de análise sobre a influência da SAE nos sujeitos foram: a)conhecimento sobre a SAE: tem conhecimento e tem pouco conhecimento; b)opinião sobre a SAE: favorável e parcialmente favorável; c)desenvolvimento da SAE no contexto do trabalho: ocorre parcialmente e não ocorre; d)influência da Implementação da SAE no desempenho das tarefas: afeta e não afeta; e)ocorrência de sofrimento psíquico na Implementação da SAE : há e não há expressões diretas de sofrimento psíquico. Os dados revelaram que os efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros causam sofrimento psíquico, resultantes das condições de trabalho inadequadas para promover a Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem.

Efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros de uma Instituição de Saúde Pública

O presente estudo teve como objetivos investigar a opinião do enfermeiro sobre a Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem, verificar os efeitos da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem na organização do trabalho do enfermeiro e identificar se a Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem causa sofrimento psíquico nesses profissionais. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, realizada com 22 enfermeiros que atuam em uma instituição pública de saúde do grande ABCD, no Estado de São Paulo. Foram utilizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, por meio de gravação dos depoimentos. A análise dos dados foi realizada buscando apreender os conteúdos representacionais sobre os efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros. As categorias de análise sobre a influência da SAE nos sujeitos foram: a)conhecimento sobre a SAE: tem conhecimento e tem pouco conhecimento; b)opinião sobre a SAE: favorável e parcialmente favorável; c)desenvolvimento da SAE no contexto do trabalho: ocorre parcialmente e não ocorre; d)influência da Implementação da SAE no desempenho das tarefas: afeta e não afeta; e)ocorrência de sofrimento psíquico na Implementação da SAE : há e não há expressões diretas de sofrimento psíquico. Os dados revelaram que os efeitos da Implementação da Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem nos Enfermeiros causam sofrimento psíquico, resultantes das condições de trabalho inadequadas para promover a Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem.

Queensland Aborigines, multiple realities and the social sources of suffering: Psychiatry and moral regions of being (Part 1)

This two part paper considers the experience of a range of magico-religious experiences (such as visions and voices) and spirit beliefs in a rural Aboriginal town. The papers challenge the tendency of institutionalised psychiatry to medicalise the experiences and critiques the way in which its individualistic practice is intensified in the face of an incomprehensible Aboriginal „other‟ to become part of the power imbalance that characterises the relationship between Indigenous and white domains. The work reveals the internal differentiation and politics of the Aboriginal domain, as the meanings of these experiences and actions are contested and negotiated by the residents and in so doing they decentre the concerns of the white domain and attempt to control their relationship with it. Thus the plausibility structure that sustains these multiple realities reflects both accommodation and resistance to the material and historical conditions imposed and enacted by mainstream society on the residents, and to current socio- political realities. I conclude that the residents‟ narratives chart the grounds of moral adjudication as the experiences were rarely conceptualised by local people as signs of individual pathology but as reflections of social reality. Psychiatric drug therapy and the behaviourist assumptions underlying its practice posit atomised individuals as the appropriate site of intervention as against the multiple realities revealed by the phenomenology of the experiences. The papers thus call into question Australian mainstream „commonsense‟ that circulates about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people which justifies representations of them as sickly outcasts in Australian society.

Queensland Aborigines, multiple realities and the social sources of suffering. Part 2: Suicide, spirits and symbolism

This is the second part of a paper that explores a range of magico-religious experiences such as immaterial voices and visions, in terms of local cultural, moral and socio-political circumstances in an Aboriginal town in rural Queensland. This part of the paper explores the political and cultural symbolism and meaning of suicide. It charts the saliency of suicide amongst two groups of kin and cohorts and the social meaningfulness and problematic of the voices and visions in relation to suicide, to identity and family forms and to funerals and a heavily drinking lifestyle. I argue that voices and visions are used to reinterpret social experience and to establish meaning and that tragically suicide evokes connectivity rather than anomie and here cannot be understood merely as an individualistic act or evidence of individual pathology. Rather it is about transformation and crossing a threshold to join an enduring domain of Aboriginality. In this life world, where family is the highest social value and where a relational view of persons holds sway, the individualistic practice of psychiatric and other helping professions, is a considerable problem.

Caring for women suffering depression in the postnatal period

The research and theoretical perspectives that underpin knowledge of depression in the postnatal period have tended to rely on standardized measures and 'objective' data which combine to disempower women's individual experiences. From a feminist perspective, contradictions exist between women's accounts of the early days and months following childbirth and the diagnosis of postnatal depression made by some health professionals. A framework for nursing care that uses the strengths of feminist and cognitive therapies is suggested. From this feminist-cognitive perspective, mental health nursing care will provide opportunities for women suffering depression to debrief the experience of birth and pregnancy, manage conflicts about identity, gain a sense of survival, and develop a new perspective.

Unpacking the micro-macro nexus: narratives of suffering and hope among refugees from Burma recently settled in Australia

Narratives of forced migration are open to a variety of interpretations. In mental health, refugee narratives of arduous journeys in the face of systemic macro socio-political forces are often transformed from this context into a medicalized micro context of inner individual worlds. Both the dominant pathogenic lens of trauma studies and the growing salutogenic lens embodied in resilience research, often reflect a western cultural idiom of focusing on the individualized nature of these phenomena. Using qualitative data collected from refugees from Burma now settling in Australia, the article emphasizes the need for a more reflexive and expansive account of both suffering and hope within refugee narratives. It recounts these narratives within a conceptual framework which acknowledges the importance of the connections between the micro individual experience and the macro, socio-political context. This is not only a question of political principle, but also a matter of listening to the voice of those who know most about the relationship between macro forces of human rights violations and their impact on individual, family and community trajectories.

Feature - No pain, no gain: Pleasure and suffering in technologies of leidenschaft

Training for bodybuilding competition is clearly a serious business that inflicts serious demands on the competitor. Not only did Francis commit time and money to compete, but he also arguably put winning before his physical well-being—enduring pain and suffering from his injury. Bodybuilding may seem like an extreme example, but it is not the only activity in which people suffer in pursuit of their goals. Boxers fight each other in the ring; soccer players risk knee and ankle injuries, sometimes playing despite being hurt; and mountaineers risk their lives in dangerous climbs. In the arts there are many examples of people suffering to achieve their goals: Beethoven kept composing, conducting, and performing despite his hearing loss; van Gogh grappled with depression but kept painting, finding fame only posthumously; and Mozart lived the final years of his life impoverished but still composing. These examples show that many great achievements come at a price: severe suffering...