Luciane De Conti

A composição de narrativas pela dupla terapeuta-paciente: uma análise da sua organização e da sua seqüência de ações

Narratives are constructed in order to give sense to human experience and organize it. It is the act of narration that allows the individual to interpret his/her life and to create a personal signification for the experienced events. This study investigates whether the discourse elaborated by the trainee-therapist/patient dyad, in a psychoanalytic psychotherapy situation, was organized in a narrative manner. Afterwards, the logic of the sequence of actions showed in the narratives composed by the therapeutic dyad was analyzed. The analysis of the transcriptions of the psychotherapeutic sessions evinced that this discourse is structured in narrative manner since it presents the two principles necessary for its organization: succession and transformation. It was also verified that the narrative sequence constituted in this process is governed by the logic of semantic causality, which is imposed to the narrator in the course of the emplotment, and not by the logic of linear chronology.

Narrativas de crianças sobre as escolas da infância: cenários e desafios da pesquisa (auto)biográfica

This study deals with 4-10 year-old children stories and analyses how they portrait their experiences at school. It is the outcome of an inter-institutional research project performed at schools in Natal, Sao Paulo, Recife, Niteroi and Boa Vista. To collect data, we opted for conversations of children in groups of five, who would share a conversation with a little alien whose planet lacked schools. The analyses revealed consensus and tensions between scholar cultu - re and childhood cultures, which affect the way children play and learn, make friends or not, remain children or not. When narrating, the child redefines his/her experience and contributes to seize the primary school as a place where he/she becomes (or not) a citizen.

Práxis psicoterapêutica de estagiários de psicologia: análise do relato e da trama narrativa

This article presents a narrative analysis proposal of the interventions made by psychology interns in their psychotherapeutic practice. The data sources were the transcripts of psychotherapy sessions conducted by interns with their patients, associated with the issues discussed in academic supervision. The analysis of the transcripts, seen in this study as a narrative of the practice, occurred in two levels: of the account and of the narrative plot. The results show the different movements carried out by the interns in their attempts to intervene according to the basic ideas of an analytically-oriented psychotherapy. These interventions seem to be, at times, contradictory, thus showing the errors and vicissitudes that are part of the clinical thinking learning process.

Autobiographical Narratives: Pedagogical Practice as a Lifeline for Hospitalized Children

The present article focuses on the meanings created by children with illnesses who tell stories—through the pedagogical practice of writing autobiographical narratives—about their experiences coping with chronic disease and hospitalization. Using the children’s autobiographical narratives to infer their perspectives, the authors here seek to understand how particular school lessons improve these children’s lives. We reflect on the possible role of hospital schools, and this pedagogical practice of asking for autobiographical narratives in particular, as one that affords the children a range of pleasurable and meaningful experiences, helping them to go beyond their intense treatment schedules and motivating them to rise every day to the challenges they face in the hospital.