The relational-game of a group of psychotic patients in physical activity: a psychoanalytic study / O jogo-relacional de um grupo de pacientes psicÃticos em atividade fÃsica: um estudo psicanalÃtico

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2009

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This research presented a relational-game of a group of psychotic patients in crisis, who gathered for physical activities outside the institutional environment. The aim of this research was to study the physical activity as a mitigating factor of psychotic symptoms using a technique here called Group of Physical Activities. In this unconventional "setting", the research investigated the group activities as a favorable element in the perception of others as relational objects, i.e., a slip of the narcissistic libido in direction to the object libido. The group itself was open, heterogeneous (youngs and adults) and mixed by sex. The concepts of Sigmund Freud and of the group analysis provided the theoretical basis in this study. The qualitative research from the viewpoint of the psychoanalytic method was chosen as the methodological approach. This approach was used as an instrument technique, here called Group of Physical Activities, which comprised three main stages: walk (round trip service to a community playground), sports activities and a symbolic closing of the session. For the analysis of the results we adopted the technique of content analysis proposed by Mathieu. It was concluded that in several times, the technique used has led the group towards the psychic organization. During the sessions, the dynamics of the group was giving notice of a movement of aggregation, of trying to be and to have a body. The applied technique has generated an environment that nurtured the relationship amongst the components of the group and at the same time, produced an elaborative space. The Group of Physical Activities became a legitimate space for expressing affections, such as aggression, which in this case was found to be a culturally accepted behaviour within the game scope. The group itself saw the group activity as something that has left health, which could nurture and bring vitality. The physical activity provided a stage for the establishment of procedures of identification, by acting as a facilitator of inter-subjective contact, here and now. Hence, this unconventional "setting" acted to alleviate psychotic symptoms, allowing the subject to restore his/her ties with the outside world.

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saÃde mental physical activity psicologia mental health psicose group analysis psychosis atividade fÃsica grupanÃlise

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