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| Author(s): |
Francielle Xavier Dias
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2015-12-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Francisco Miguel Henriques Bairrao;
Maria Paula Panuncio Pinto;
Luiz Carlos Avelino da Silva
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| Advisor: | Sergio Kodato |
| Abstract | |
The madness had its representation developed historically and signified in a scientific context as a mental illness, enabling medical semiotics of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Therefore, this research put this speech on mental illness at the center of investigations into the processes of interpretation and subjectivity of subject professionals who labor daily with the phenomenon. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the social representations of professionals from a public mental health service about mental illness, based on the method of analysis of social representations, according to Moscovici (1978, 2004), Jodelet (2005a) and Jovchelovitch (1998). The context studied was a Centro de Atenção Psicossocial III in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. It is well known that health and ilness influence paradigms involved in diagnosis and treatment practices. Data acquisition was made by observations and in-depth interviews. The subjects (n=10) were chosen in order to guarantee the heterogeneity of the group The interviews were analyzed according to the technique of content analysis (Bardin, 1979) and organized into thematic categories. Data analysis pointed that professional´s social representations were built by relationship with their peers and incorporation of new knowledges. Mental illness remained romanticized to the professional until it´s contact with patients. The etiology of the disease more accepted by professionals was the biopsychosocial interactional. Their vision regarding the causes and treatment of mental illness are different from ordinary people, but it remains idealized. The social representation of professionals comprehends mental illness as something unpredictable, disabling and permanent, objectified in the image of the poor and helpless. It was also observed that the psychosocial paradigm feeds the speech of health professionals, but it is still a challenge for these in practice. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/12341-0 - Social representations of mental illness constructed for health professionals |
| Grantee: | Francielle Xavier Dias |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |