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We wonder if linking the Covid-19 pandemic to the signifier “war” could wither away the legal force of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, hitting it to its core: human dignity. We pick up on Clausewitz’s considerations, for whom war consists of the continuation of politics rather than of an unexpected episode, to get to Foucault, who unveils that power relations produce a regulation of life and death, what cast us again in the field of vulnerability, one that the war metaphor either arouses and conceals. At the dramatic moment of the pandemic, the call for war, the supportive call against a common enemy, although justified as an emergency measure and necessary appeal, may also be of avail as the necropolitics obverse (Mbembe, 2016), the visible death produced by the virus enshrouding the invisible death of the excluded and disposable, the usual “killable” ones.  

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Community Social Psychology (CSP) seeks to develop psychosocial interventions that contribute to the suppression of social inequalities within our reality. As well as CSP, the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) put forward an artistic and political activity committed to social reality transformation. We aim to present possible associations and contributions from the Theatre of the Oppressed to the field of CSP, highlighting lived through events concerning the gender oppression still experienced by countless women within Brazilian society. A narrative literature review was undertaken in order to contextualize central dimensions of TO, which may favour the practice of psychologists in situations of exploitation and oppression. We consider TO as a method and a powerful tool for a CSP praxis committed to the transformation of society towards political and human emancipation.

The aim of this paper is to present the results of a cognitive-behavioral therapy clinical case report of a young man with domestic violence issues. The subject shows depressive symptoms that affect him on a personal, academic and social level. Furthermore, he shows fear and anxiety about several social situations in which he may fall under the scrutiny from other people, and worries about the likelihood of behaving in an embarrassing manner. With the psychological assessment, the subject was diagnosed with depression and social phobia, and cognitive-behavioral therapy based on Beck´s Cognitive Model of Depression and Clark & Wells’s Cognitive Model for Social Anxiety were started off. The results of the intervention were positive, indicating the importance of cognitive-behavioral therapy in this kind of disorders.

In the context of a predominance of evaluative and surveillance practices which fall upon various domains of contemporary life, this article aims to elucidate the erasing of exception paths and effects on contemporaneity from a psychoanalytic standpoint. From the ancient master’s discourse to the modern master’s discourse, academic and capitalist, the knowledge obtained by utility and value measures starts to direct political and individual decisions, previously guided by tradition. In the face of this reality, the bureaucratic administration gear towards the subjects, striving for homogenizing and subordinating them to the modern ideal of transparency, guaranteed by the knowledge extracted and decoded by the evaluation apparatus. Psychoanalysis garners the effects from this contemporary social bond, but, in a distinct way from that of the dominant discourse, offers another destiny to the intimate, to the jouissance that can be neither accounted for, nor homogenized.

This article characterizes the world view of Jungian psychology based on the concept of unus mundus. A sample with articles by Jung, his commentators and authors of Quantum Physics was analyzed using Jungian hermeneutics. The results were organized according to the following analysis categories: “the invisible plane underlying the empirical level of reality as totality and unity”, “the invisible plane as the source of creation and movement”, “the invisible plane as marked by non-locality” and “the psyche and the invisible plane.” The main conclusion that can be drawn is one of a worldview in which the empirical reality is seen as grounded in an implied/invisible order which is considered to be a source of creation, movement, unity, non-causal connection and unconditioned by time and space. Archetype is considered a “bridge” between the psyche and the invisible order, and synchronicity as evidence of this connection.

This article aims to discuss the arrival of adolescence for the autistic subject, and the implications arising from this period of life, having psychoanalysis as theoretical reference. Initially, adolescence is conceptualized. In a second moment, it articulates the autist’s adolescence and the concept of invention. In order to do so, it gets hold of the concepts of Freud-and-Lacan-oriented authors’ works and uses the documentary account of Owen Suskind’s history to address the particularities of their passage through adolescence.

This article seeks to apprehend the processes involved in the constitution of the autistic body for which there is not the Other as a reference. In the light of Daniel Tammet’s testimony, a British author and autistic writer, it will be possible to elucidate the place of objects for autistic people and how the autistic person’s interest in the out-of-body object allows them to build their edge, acting as a protective resource against bodily disturbances, anguish and isolation. Thus, investment in external objects results in a reduction in the incidence on the non-interconnected body of enjoyment, opening the possibility for the field of the Other. The objectives are to examine the concept of body in psychoanalysis in relation to autism, to investigate the constitution of the autistic body from the psychoanalytic theory and, finally, to identify the effects on the body of interest for autistic objects.

Palliative Care is an approach with a distinct and integrative viewpoint to oncological and chronic-degenerative diseases. Based on it, extensive care is a treatment proposition which aggregates the perspective of a transitional process. The aim of this article is to present, within this perspective, the process of implementation of therapeutic workshops in a private hospital network. Description and analysis of activities performed, focusing on the stages of the project from its setup until the present moment, will be carried out. The identified benefits promote resilience and include factors such as social support, self-knowledge, recovery of a sense of meaning, coping, bioethical issues and the grieving process. Overall, it may be said that therapeutic workshops, as a modality of group care, are, in an integrative and multidisciplinary manner, a new field of work, which requires more research aiming to contribute to the expansion of its results.

This article aims to highlight the transposition, within the scope of Brazilian public policies, of the existing epistemic tension between the re-educational and psychodynamic proposals for the treatment of autism, identifying Psychoanalysis in the latter category and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy among the former. Thus, some Brazilian norms that rule the inclusion of people with autism in public policies are briefly presented here. It focus on the content of the two guiding documents for the treatment of autism in the Unified National Health System (SUS), issued by the Ministry of Health in 2013, which makes it possible to explain the perspective of psychoanalysis in relation to the proposed policies. The shift of epistemic tension to the political context, with the consequent legal claim forbidding the psychoanalysis to assist people with autism, is cleared up by some recent historical facts, taking place either in France or in Brazil. The methodology applied was the literature review.

This article deals with a few basic concepts from psychoanalysis regarding autism and sexuality using fragments of testimonies from four subjects who in isolated biographic reports, address to these two concepts. Four different perspectives on diverse courses of the child experience based on the real and which approach a category based on the silence, in the suffering of the extreme anguish, a personal effort in the creation of a tailored Other.

  This article addresses the diversity of the field of knowledge on autism at different times and discusses the epistemological bases that guide the notions of spectrum and autistic structure, derived from the discourse of science and from the Lacan-oriented psychoanalysis, respectively. It spots the historical trajectory of the notion of autism since its foundation in the field of classical psychopathology and its evolution according to a psychodynamic approach, together with post-Freudian analysts. It identifies autism in different versions of the DSM, in which it is reduced to a deficit in neurodevelopment. It examines the hypothesis of autism as a clinical structure and discusses some aspects of its distinction in relation to psychosis. It demonstrates the commitment of research and the application of psychoanalysis to autism, since the fifties, emphasizing its theoretical, ethical and clinical aspects.

This article aims to understand how autism challenges the mother in the exercise of motherhood, having the power to affect directly her desire and weaken the mother-child relationship. Although the number of cases of autism has continued to increase since its discovery, it still constitutes an enigma even in the field of science, which favors maternal distress. Thus, in an attempt to elucidate the issues involved in the theme, it is important to trace a brief history about autism and motherhood, in addition to the culturally established ideals or standards. The text still presents the view from Psychoanalysis regarding the women’s desire concerning the motherhood experience, and the made-up solutions as a way to treat the uneasiness resulting from the maternal relationship with autism.

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This article aims to discuss the connection between psychoanalysis and psychiatry based on the question: what is the medication for the autist? Narrative review was used as methodology. Scientific evidence shows that there is no specific medication for autism, but certain symptoms which disrupt the functionality of daily life, such as insomnia, aggressiveness, agitation, among others, can be medicated. What the analyst aims at is not to change the form of autistic functioning, but to allow the possibility of building a unique universe, solutions that no diagnostic manual can anticipate. In this sense, psychiatry and its therapeutic arsenal, via the act of medicating, take the place of the analyst’s partner, allowing the subject not to be reduced to being a simple object of diagnosis, in the name of a supposed “normality”. Medication can contribute in a punctual, discontinuous or, at times, continuous manner, enabling the course of analytical treatment.

Este artigo apresenta uma reflexão baseada numa experiência clínica como estagiária em uma instituição belga, denominada Le Courtil, que acolhe crianças e jovens autistas, psicóticos e neuróticos em estado grave. O trabalho do Le Courtil consiste na prática entre vários, que tem a reunião clínica como um dispositivo para elaborar os casos, um a um, e os profissionais que ali atuam visam a abrir para o sujeito a possibilidade de inventar sua própria resposta ao seu sofrimento. Há também um compromisso dessa instituição com a transmissão, por meio de seminários, apresentação de casos e acolhimento aos estagiários. Neste artigo, será realizada a exposição do Courtil e a fundamentação teórica da prática nessa instituição, bem como uma apresentação de recortes da experiência clínica, na qual se ilustrará o trabalho realizado nesse contexto institucional.

This article intends to explore the subjects of masks and anonymity aspossible ways to engage in ethical and political experimentations. Forthat matter it is important to let ourselves be affected by the intensity ofparadoxes that inhabit the city’s streets and social struggles associated withthem. The essay treats anonymity as a conceptual tool that could bring freshthinking and air to the constant vigil against modern oppression, keepingus away from a private subjectivity as well from the constraints found inidentitarian collectives. The investigation puts anonymity in the realm ofresistance: which kind of resistance? What forms of expression could putit in relation to politics and ethics? Those questions are put into open perspectives that could help address the problems of State violence and thevarious ways to fight it.

This article brings some issues about the contemporaneity, marked by akind of epidemic of violence and a pandemic of fear. It also highlightsthat the production of this kind of fear becomes a device of domination,that makes individualistic interests prevail, which undermine public space.This direction of analysis is based on Hannah Arendt’s and Agamben’sstatements. At the end, it shows an experiment in a Public University in theSoutheastern Region of Brazil that turned into a strategy to face this state ofaffairs, envisioning effectively public policies in the education field.

The growing requirement for scientific research has already become a dailyprocedure at the universities of our country, especially those who maintaina significant set of stricto sensu training courses. The goal of this article is todiscuss this demand, exploring two angles of the concept of resistance: theresistance needed to receive and deal with the bureaucratic requirementspresent in the act of researching and resistance designed in the possibilities of turning researches into a living exercise of thought. These two angles, whichcoexist in our historical time, bring to researchers the challenge of creatinga research practice allied to social transformation, but also connected to theexperience of affections and their developments. At the end of the study, itwill be possible to show that the practice of research implies bureaucraticdimensions, but goes far beyond them, witnessing also the relevance ofgraduating sensitive researchers, able to receive and analyze social realities inan affective and contextualized way.

This paper studies the homeless population as an emblematic case todiscuss the relationship between daily life and bureaucracy, displaying thetensions between living on the streets and the functioning of public policiesconcerning homeless people’s living in two capitals in the Northeast ofBrazil. Based on homeless people’s narrative excerpts, participant/itinerant’sobservation records and workers’ reports through interviews, the studyproblematizes the distance between the letter (bureaucracy) and life (dailylife) and the relation between regulated time and space, highlighting how,outside the institutional walls, the daily life is practiced in its uniqueness, but excluded from the right to the city. In this context, the city is understoodas polis, concluding that the challenges on the street are the challenges of thecity: aggregating stories and supporting the differences.