Representações sociais de pacientes psiquiátricos sobre a loucura, a internação e o sofrer psíquico: a triste passagem e a triste paisagem / Social Representations of psychiatric patients on their insanity, internment and psyche suffering: the sad journey of the sad scenery
AUTOR(ES)
Maria Alice Ornellas Pereira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
1997
RESUMO
This study aimed to identify the Social Representations of psychiatric patients on their circumstances of life after being familiar with insanity, internment and psyche suffering. From a qualitative approach of research, i applied the technique of Life History to interview four female patients interned in a Psychiatric Hospital separately. I made the methodologicaltheoretical procedures of this research through observation, non-directive open interviews enriched with the application of prospective techique (free historydrawing and thematic drawing) and consultation in the reports. I applied the thematic analysys to analyze the data confirming that the patients build up certain knowledge about their insanity. In this way, I could identify the Social Representations which are made in methods of thinking organized in true psycho-pathological theories which are combined with conceptions about insanity and its consequences. Through real grasp of life experience the patients developed theories denoting their difficult ways of life which led them to the status of mentally sick people. The saying the sad journey, the sad scenery used by a patient in this study puts in lay terms the tragedy of those who went through the hard experience of insanity, who underwent psychiatric treatment and therefore had lengthy internments.
ASSUNTO(S)
long-term hospitalization institucionalização sofrer psíquico psychiatry psiquiatria psychological suffering
