O desemprego em situação: esboços de estruturação de uma clínica social / The unemployment situation: sketches of the structuring process of a social clinic

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

The present work had two objectives: to structure, based on a psychoanalytical focus, a clinical treatment frame involving unemployed workers and their families at a public health institution, and to investigate, through clinical treatment, the impact of unemployment on the lives of men and women who are in this situation. Thus, we aimed to perform the double function of the psychoanalytical method: being, at the same time, an instrument of intervention and investigation. First, we present and discuss the joint elaboration of our treatment proposal, conducted together with the technical team of a Reference Center in Worker’s Health in the city of São Paulo, the attempts to contact the families and the first interviews carried out with them, as well as the difficulties we faced to follow them closely over a long period of time. Then, we present the clinical material resulting from the treatment services we rendered: the transcriptions of six sessions of a group of unemployed workers, followed, each one of them, by an analysis that aims at following closely the step-by-step development of the group; the analysis of the treatment process of an unemployed worker and his family, which focuses on his mode of psychic functioning when he is with his family, facing the unemployment situation; and the treatment of one couple, of which we transcribed and analyzed one session referring to the end of the treatment process. The theoretical part begins with a reflection on the field of studies and research of Social Psychology, in which we situate our investigation. This is followed by a discussion on the market economy system and its impact on social life, which has as one of its consequences the unemployment of a significant portion of the population. Then, we provide some reflections on the relationships between mass culture and popular culture, which support both the material we could obtain and our way of understanding it. Results discussion suggests that, to the unemployed workers, the family is the central nucleus of elaboration, the remaining territory for a personal re-organization of the new situational reality that unemployment generates, although it cannot meet the material and emotional demands that were previously supplied, even though precariously, by insertion in the work world. The work is concluded with an evaluation of the clinical experience that was carried out, its limits and possibilities. Based on the data collected in our research study, it shows the need to continue structuring a psychotherapeutic service for the unemployed in public health institutions.

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psychoanalysis desemprego family psicanálise psicologia social social psychology família unemployment

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