Maria Cristina Lopes de Almeida Amazonas

Famílias adotivas: identidade e diferença

The present paper discusses the specificities of the adoptive parenthood, while pointing out remarkable differences on the constitution of adoptive parents’ identity, and when defining important elements for a preventive assistance. In the adoption process, the child is placed into a new family in a way, which is very different from a natural birth, that is, with a pre-adoptive life story and two couples of parents. When the adoptive parenthood is established, from the impossibility of generating a biological child, mourning and losses are brought to the scenery and, thus, need to be elaborated. Conscious factors (the sterility, the demands from society, the pre-adoptive life story, the biological parents, the prejudices) and unconscious factors (fears, desires, fantasies, each consort’s demands) need to be considered and worked out. It is essential that candidates to parents can understand their own psychological dynamics, in order to be in condition of establishing the parameters for achieving a healthful relationship with their new child in the future.

REFLEXÕES ACERCA DAS NOVAS FORMAS DE PARENTALIDADE E SUAS POSSÍVEIS VICISSITUDES CULTURAIS E SUBJETIVAS

This article discusses the consequences upon culture and subjectivity caused by the new parenthood arrangements, which comes from new family arrangements, changes in parental roles and gender, procreation control, the development of biotechnologies, among other events, and their consequences on family group and on the process of becoming a person. It defends the following thesis: in any family groups arrangements, what is fundamental is that children must be wanted, beloved, cared for, and there must be someone who gives them a place and also who provides them limits.

Família: maternidade e procriação assistida

The present article discusses the transformations within the concepts of family in the Western society. These changes are due to (among others reasons) the social position that women have assumed, and to the constitution of a feminine identity based on the fact of becoming a mother. These matters follow the decadence of a patriarchal pattern, which generates discussions regarding a supposed rising of a femininization of culture and the failure of the father role. To these questions recent development of reproductive medicine technologies, and medical interventions upon feminine body can be added, which has provide changes as well as reinforcements to a traditional family model.

Modos de subjetivação femininos, família e trabalho

Abstract : This article discusses the feminine ways of subjectivity in the contemporary world in the context of work and family. It questions the concept of gender, taking it as relational, plural, in an attempt to escape the binary logic. Data were collected from a research in which six women of medium social economic level between 25 and 35 years old were interviewed, and their answers were submitted to the content analysis. Results show women who are part of a historical context that addresses them the speech of a free and autonomous subject, who value their work as professionals, but at the same time, who are required to assist their husbands’ and children’s needs in private life. The multiple identities they assume require different and contradictory positions as subjects, pervaded by feminine/masculine gender issues that do not respond to their performances in the world. However, simultaneously their narrations indicate that these women have begun to look for alternative ways that might help them overcome these dichotomic relations.Este articulo discute los modos de subjetividad femeninos en el mundo contemporaneo en el contexto del trabajo y de la familia y problematiza el concepto de genero considerandolo como relacional, plural, en un intento de escapar a la logica binaria. El articulo se basa en los datos de una encuesta en que fueron entrevistadas seis mujeres entre 25 y 35 anos de edad, de nivel socio economico mediano, cuyas respuestas fueron sometidas al analisis de contenido. Los resultados muestran mujeres que hacen parte de un contexto historico que las direcciona a un discurso de sujeto autonomo y libre, que atribuyen valor al trabajo como profesion, pero que, al mismo tiempo, se exige de ellas cumplir las exigencias de maridos e hijos en el espacio privado. Las variadas identidades que asumen necesitan posiciones de sujeto contradictorias, atravesadas por las cuestiones de genero masculino/femenino que no mas consiguen mantener sus actuaciones en el mundo. Sin embargo, simultaneamente, sus discursos indican que las mujeres comienzan a buscar caminos alternativos que las ayuden a superar esas relaciones dicotomicas.

A adoção de crianças por gays

The experience of three highly educated men who have adoptive children and identify themselves as gays was investigated using semi-structured interviews, which were literally transcribed and submitted to content analysis, resulting in three themes: the wish to become a parent; the construction of a parenthood feeling; secrets and revelations. Results show that wishing to have a child, being able to love it and taking responsibility over it is not related to sexual orientation, nor is restricted to normalization desire; the construction of a parenthood feeling may happen in the daily interaction with the child or since the first moment in which they see it; the relationship with the infant is influenced by the relation with their own sexuality, whether omitting or revealing their sexual orientation.

Família, trabalho, identidades de gênero

This article presents a qualitative research with fifteen women between 20 and 35 years old. The objective of the study was to apprehend their representation about Feminine Identity, inquiring the place attributed to women in family and at work, including gender and power relations. Hence, a semi-structured interview was applied, recorded and literally transcripted for later analysis. The data shows multiples feminine identities: women occupying new subject-positions; feminine work enabling the crosswalk between public and private spaces; and new modalities of gender relations. At last, the notion of gender identity is considered to be historical; as a cultural identity socially constructed, therefore possible to be putted into question.

The Illness Experience: Palliative Care Given the impossibility of Healing

O presente trabalho traz uma reflexao a respeito do ser um doente terminal e das varias maneiras que o sujeito tem a seu dispor para lidar com esse acontecimento. Nosso objetivo foi compreender a experiencia da paliacao por sujeitos doentes sem possibilidades terapeuticas de cura. A metodologia deste estudo teve como instrumentos a Entrevista Narrativa, a Observacao Participante e o Diario de Campo, sendo a Analise Descritiva de inspiracao foucaultiana o modo como as narrativas dos sujeitos foram percebidas. O resultado do estudo mostrou a possibilidade de olhar a experiencia do adoecer atraves da otica de uma posicao de sujeito assumida pelo proprio enfermo. E concluimos que ao escolher os cuidados paliativos, o doente terminal opta por um modo de se sentir mais confortavel e resiste as imposicoes do modelo medico de prolongamento da vida.This paper presents a reflection about being terminally ill and the various ways that the subject has at its disposal to deal with this event. The objective is to understand the experience of palliation for patients undergoing no therapeutic possibilities of cure. The methodology of this study has the instruments to semi-structured interview, the participant observation and the field diary, and the Descriptive Analysis of Foucaults inspiration how the narratives of the subjects were perceived. The Results of paper there was the possibility of looking at the experience of illness through the eyes of a subject position assumed by the very sick. As conclusion we have than when choosing palliative care, the terminally ill opts for a way to feel more comfortable and resists the impositions of the medical model of prolonging life. O presente trabalho traz uma reflexão a respeito do ser um doente terminal e das várias maneiras que o sujeito tem a seu dispor para lidar com esse acontecimento. Nosso objetivo foi compreender a experiência da paliação por sujeitos doentes sem possibilidades terapêuticas de cura. A metodologia deste estudo teve como instrumentos a Entrevista Narrativa, a Observação Participante e o Diário de Campo, sendo a Análise Descritiva de inspiração foucaultiana o modo como as narrativas dos sujeitos foram percebidas. O resultado do estudo mostrou a possibilidade de olhar a experiência do adoecer através da ótica de uma posição de sujeito assumida pelo próprio enfermo. E concluímos que ao escolher os cuidados paliativos, o doente terminal opta por um modo de se sentir mais confortável e resiste às imposições do modelo médico de prolongamento da vida.

Post-structuralism and psychological research on/through the internet

O presente estudo tem como objetivo descrever alguns procedimentos que visam a realizacao de pesquisas nas/atraves das redes sociais virtuais, particularmente no campo da psicologia. Para tanto, diferentes maneiras de utilizacao da Internet como ferramenta ou objeto de investigacao foram analisadas, considerando-se os parâmetros eticos e tecnicos previstos tanto na resolucao 196 do Conselho Nacional de Saude como no Codigo de Etica Profissional do Psicologo. Por fim, discorre-se sobre a adequacao desses procedimentos com relacao a perspectiva teorica pos-estruturalista, com base em autores classicos desta linha de pensamento filosofico, como Michel Foucault, Judith Butler e Tomaz Tadeu da Silva.

O fenômeno da acomodação familiar em pais/mães de pacientes com transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo

One of the most frequent phenomena in the families of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients is Family Accommodation: participation in the patients rituals, with modifications to the routine, which contributes to reinforcing and maintaining the symptoms. This study aimed to evaluate the level of Family Accommodation presented by 12 mothers and 2 fathers, selected from the Measure of Perceived Criticism applied to the patients. Results were analyzed according to four dimensions: 1) participation in patients obsessive-compulsive rituals; 2) modifications to family routine; 3) family stress; 4) patients disturbance level when not helped. From 70 answers (100.0%), 78.6% related participation in obsessive-compulsive behavior. Out of a total of 56 answers (100.0%), 78.6% indicated changes in family routine; 100.0% of the answers indicated family stress, and 83.3% indicate that the patient is disturbed when not helped.

A Experiência do Adoecer: Os Cuidados Paliativos diante da Impossibilidade da Cura

O presente trabalho traz uma reflexao a respeito do ser um doente terminal e das varias maneiras que o sujeito tem a seu dispor para lidar com esse acontecimento. Nosso objetivo foi compreender a experiencia da paliacao por sujeitos doentes sem possibilidades terapeuticas de cura. A metodologia deste estudo teve como instrumentos a Entrevista Narrativa, a Observacao Participante e o Diario de Campo, sendo a Analise Descritiva de inspiracao foucaultiana o modo como as narrativas dos sujeitos foram percebidas. O resultado do estudo mostrou a possibilidade de olhar a experiencia do adoecer atraves da otica de uma posicao de sujeito assumida pelo proprio enfermo. E concluimos que ao escolher os cuidados paliativos, o doente terminal opta por um modo de se sentir mais confortavel e resiste as imposicoes do modelo medico de prolongamento da vida.This paper presents a reflection about being terminally ill and the various ways that the subject has at its disposal to deal with this event. The objective is to understand the experience of palliation for patients undergoing no therapeutic possibilities of cure. The methodology of this study has the instruments to semi-structured interview, the participant observation and the field diary, and the Descriptive Analysis of Foucaults inspiration how the narratives of the subjects were perceived. The Results of paper there was the possibility of looking at the experience of illness through the eyes of a subject position assumed by the very sick. As conclusion we have than when choosing palliative care, the terminally ill opts for a way to feel more comfortable and resists the impositions of the medical model of prolonging life. O presente trabalho traz uma reflexão a respeito do ser um doente terminal e das várias maneiras que o sujeito tem a seu dispor para lidar com esse acontecimento. Nosso objetivo foi compreender a experiência da paliação por sujeitos doentes sem possibilidades terapêuticas de cura. A metodologia deste estudo teve como instrumentos a Entrevista Narrativa, a Observação Participante e o Diário de Campo, sendo a Análise Descritiva de inspiração foucaultiana o modo como as narrativas dos sujeitos foram percebidas. O resultado do estudo mostrou a possibilidade de olhar a experiência do adoecer através da ótica de uma posição de sujeito assumida pelo próprio enfermo. E concluímos que ao escolher os cuidados paliativos, o doente terminal opta por um modo de se sentir mais confortável e resiste às imposições do modelo médico de prolongamento da vida.