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This study investigated the relationship between the affective state (mood) and the types of information processing known as top-down (assimilative function) and bottomup (accommodative function). More precisely, it focused on whether the internalized general knowledge (beliefs) is facilitated by assimilative processes, being activated when the person is in a state of positive mood and, on the other hand, whether knowledge derived from data (facilitated by accommodative functions) is produced in states of negative mood. The theoretical model used was developed by Fiedler & Bless, 2000. Thirty-two subjects, with ages ranging from 17 to 38 years old, both male and female, college graduates and undergraduates, participated in this research. Participants were, initially, induced into positive and negative moods and, subsequently, tested with an active generation task in which they had to read or form (from a pool of letters provided) verbs preceded by nouns that acted as priming. The final task consisted of freely recalling the presented verbs. A judge test was conducted in order to select the nouns and verbs. The results indicated that the subjects under negatively-induced mood presented a mnemonic advantage regarding the previously read words. The prevalence of accommodative processes associated with a negative mood was expected and, in fact, the recall of words read beforehand (a predominantly accommodative task) was observed, leading to the conclusion that information processing by subjects in this mood was driven by data . Conversely, in those subjects with positive mood, associated with the task that demanded the assimilative functions of creating and forming verbs, there was probably an orientation of the information processing towards top-down-prevalent functions, since they resorted more to previous knowledge concerning the presented stimuli (pairs of nouns and verbs), activating a larger amount of information connected to these stimuli (semantic networks that facilitated the recall of the verbs created). Thus, the analysis of this sample s data seems to suggest that, in fact, positive mood triggers previous knowledge structures (beliefs) and causes a higher use of assimilative functions since, in this condition, there is a prevalence of inferences, original thoughts and creativity. Therefore, these results may contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between mood states and the cognitive functions related to equilibration.

Diary writing has been a possibility of expression used by teenagers for a long time. Nowadays, the intimate diary migrates from paper to the Internet virtual pages in the so called blogs. This research aimed to observe teenager experiences reported by themselves and the functions that writing assumes in their lives. This is a qualitative research in which four teenager blogs were analyzed, according to a psychoanalytic approach. The analysis shows that blogs can work as a preparation space, a space to think and to know emotional experiences by working as an analogue space to the potential one as well. Being in a public environment emphasizes the importance of someone's look which offers both fundamental recognition and existence meaning in this stage of life.

The present work aims to understand the construction of meanings and in the constitution of the parents-educators. We take the historical-cultural perspective as a basis for understanding the relationship parent-educators as an interaction in the educational context, which enables to transform the relationships experienced in the most significant experiences and that will contribute to the formation of children, educators and parents, as a whole. Therefore, this qualitative research was a staff director, two teachers, a mother and a father of elementary school students of a local public school on the outskirts of Uberlândia-MG. For this, we conducted semi-structured, applied individually, with an average of one hour and thirty minutes. After transcribing the same identified five thematic areas: (1) Importance of familyschool relationship, (2) Conceptions of school and family, (3) strategies used to establish this relationship, (4) How to improve this relationship; (5) Place of parents and the school in this relationship. The teachers revealed that the relationship happens when parents and school help each other, and believe that through mutual friends that we arrive at a common good for the development of the child. In this context, parents and educators need to dialogue and not to transfer responsibilities. They argued further that the dialogue should be constant, where the exchange of experience can occur spontaneously. Knowledge of pedagogical method and process of school for both parties was appointed as facilitator to speak the same language, and to assist and monitor the child's development. Finally, respondents assured that the relationship should happen through scheduled meetings, at the entry and exit of students through contact by telephone. Thus this research raises the possibility of broadening the discussions to devise the relationship between educators and parents as an embrication important in setting up the training of children, being an educator and being a father.

This research had as principal objective search for an understanding of the psychic mechanisms involved on the process of acting as a godfather of sheltered children. The practice of acting as a godfather is a voluntary service prevailing in some host institutions in Brazil. Although there is no legal definition for the term to act as a godfather , it can be described as a way to give children significant bonds, those which they should had with family members. It doesn t mean that works this way. It can be noticed that the practice of acting as a godfather has been used as a way to fill existential gaps on both sides. After a tour for the subjective constitution and for the movements of a contemporaneous person asked about happiness ideals, we analyzed a clinical case of a godson and four interviews with godmothers of sheltered children. The method used for the research and for the analysis was the psychoanalytic method. From analyzers listed in the clinical case and interviews, important data were constructed about the way of relationship fostered by the act of been godfather: the exaltation of volunteering practices, correlated with noble feelings like the goodness and the love for the other one; an exacerbated narcissism as an attempt to recover the omnipotence felt in the beginning of life; the seduction that permeates the relationship between the godfather and godson; the ambivalence of feelings aroused in this relationship; and similarities of the act of been a godfather with the adoption process, according to the search for the ideal son, that extends to the search of the ideal godfather and the ideal godson.

This study was motivated by the question of the place of insanity and its relationship with the Anti-Asylum and Psychiatric Reform, according to Mental Health professionals and users of a CAPS Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (Psychosocial Care Center), an alternative to psychiatric hospitals. The research was built from the search of a place for insanity, inside and outside walls, inside and outside of us and the question: is there room for madness? Thus, I set out to investigate the relationship established in a CAPS in Uberlândia-MG, Brasil and the fundamentals it was built upon. The interpretive method for breaking fields, suggested by Herrmann, helped me find a new way of looking at and facing insanity. In this perspective, delirium goes through and is gone through by conjunctions of reality or by the producer of the meanings of relationships. I discuss delirium through the prism of Fields Theory, a movement that seeks to rescue the importance of the interpretative method from the psychoanalytic theory and technique. To accomplish this work, I used a clinical case treated in the institution and reports from professionals on their routine at the same mental health service institution. Reflecting on routine, as a mental function, proposed in the theory of Herrmann and structured routine in CAPS, I was intrigued about the meanings of routine at this particular mental health service. From there, I tried to outline some forms of relationships that are established and the basis that supported them. I tried to put myself in a typical position of the psychoanalytic method, that is, the questioner-interpretant, and this enabled me to live in other (s) place (s). A literary text emerged as an effective interpretant integrating the transit time of discovery. In evoking Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol, writing my apprehensions took a new configuration. A space opened up for moving the reflection of the place or places of insanity, search and repudiation by the different, of wonder and openness to possible new directions. Somehow the delirious speech of the patient seems to expose shortcomings in the organization of the service and other logical operations of the institution, and uncover the reasonings of relations and the contemporary world. These findings were put into dialogue with the Theory of Balman about the contemporary, unfolding into a broadening of understanding of the problem investigated.

This study aims to understand some of the multiple meanings of life trajectories of adolescents who have committed an act of infraction and faced prison. A transdisciplinary approach was used as a theoretical reference in order to enhance the understanding of the subject, bringing together different professional formation processes. This qualitative research came from my experience as a social worker in the monitoring of socio-educational measures applied to adolescent offenders. During the exploratory phase, resources pertinent to the ethnographic method were used to access the survey. For this reason, the investigation was performed taking as a basis the records of a field diary, which registered the extracts of a group of psychosocial care to adolescents who had left the juvenile prison. The reports of their memories and feelings in detention led me to revisit the institution, which was in the process of closing down, taking photographic registers of the area. The traces of the adolescents were in the drawings and sayings that were on the walls of the institution in ruins. After completing the socio-cultural contextualization of the prison in adolescence, a case study was used as a way to learn from life trajectory of adolescents. This step has been split between the analysis of documents of the institution that assisted the family of the studied case with the purpose of presenting the familiar scenario permeated by different forms of social and domestic violence. Later interviews with the central character in the story were also made. Interpretations of the information were carried out by the psychoanalytic method of analysis. It was understood that adolescents in conflict with the law and at risk have experienced various institutional interventions which are often powerless and contribute to morbid and unhealthy paths in life.

Investigating turnover intention in the work place has been the topic of many studies and professionals. This is due to the fact that the organizational context has changed dramatically over the past decades and a professional s understanding of what to expect from the organization has also changed. The present study aims at testing a model which considered the Organizational Commitment (affective, calculative and normative) and the Trust of the employee to the organization as an antecedent to Turnover Intention. The sample comprises of 139 employees from different companies and segments who answered consistent and validated scales: Organizational Commitment (affective, calculative and normative), Trust of the employee to the organization and Turnover Intention. Not only were the scales developed, but also a questionnaire about personal and professional data. Descriptive analyses and multiple regressions have been, then, carried through, considering the measure of Turnover Intention as a dependent variable. In order to test the model, it was conducted a Stepwise multiple regression analysis. The proposed model was partially confirmed. The results indicates that the affective organizational commitment explain 50% of the variance of Turnover Intention. The variable Losses of Investment explain 6%, and the variable Norms relative to the Resignation explain 2% of the variance of Turnover Intention .These results were analyzed and compared with others empirics studies, and the conclusions corroborate findings in the Organization Behaviors. Further researches were proposed.

This paper aims to study the construction of the criticism of the SUS (Brazilian National Health System) in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo during the year of 2008, considering the meanings attributed to the system, to its directors and to its users. With this analysis we aim to collaborate with the discussions around the importance of SUS disclosure to put in effect its principles and Social Control. To do so, the analysis of 667 news articles selected by researching the papers files on line was conducted. Critical discourse analysis and contributions of the social constructionist perspective, methodological lenses which invite us to explain the constructed character of social realities, considering the effects of different forms of construction for the various actors and social institutions were used. Thus, we studied the process of news production, trying to understand what meanings have been constructed or privileged from the use of different linguistic resources, analyzing it as a textual practice, and the influence of journalistic style in the construction of these meanings, analyzing it as a discursive practice. With this process, we delimited the construction of SUS ineffectiveness, the (in)competence of the government and (in)determination of the user insertion. The ineffectiveness of SUS was built upon some discursive strategies that call for: (1) The appointment of SUS, in terms of its problematic aspects and little on its successfulness, (2) Health care system in crisis, characterized by the repetition of the word crisis and generalization of problematic areas to the role System, (3) The eternal memory of the bad, delimited by the use of "despite" and "but" in order to bring about problematic aspects of the System, and (4) The irony of SUS, marked by the use of irony when talking about the services. In the construction of the (in) competence of government, we found: (1) The demoralization of the government, signaling the intent to conceal data upon its owns problem, (2) Others who do better with private, international and philanthropic at the expense of public and national, (3) The voice of the experts attesting to the incompetence of government, with the illegitimacy of the official voice, (4) Personalization of the government, as the actions of the government are explained by the motivations, wishes and affections of the people who govern, (5) The focus on time, naturalizing the lateness of health interventions. In regards to (in) determination of the insertion of the user in the System, we delimited three discursive strategies: (1) Depoliticization of the user, marked by the insertion of the user from the use of different services in non committing manners, (2) Limited politicization, characterized by a political participation restricted to enclosed spaces or consenting to some social sectors, and (3) Judicialization, marked by the requirement of individual rights through legal proceedings. Thus, erasing of the possibility of acting through boards of health and /or health conferences was found. These directions were produced from the search for "scoops", featured in our study by (1) seasonality in the publication of news, (2) the use of "bombastic" headlines (3) simplicity, with the aim of providing understanding of the news by more people, and (4) by using visibility features, such as data accumulated, comparisons and concrete metaphors. All these features and meanings provide a limited and negative view of the SUS, based on mistrust and inability to improve the system. Moreover, since the construction of government (in)competence and the (in)determinacy of insertion of the user, we believe that social control disclosure does not occur as a form of promoting participation in the SUS, which hides the history and the democratic process of its construction.

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This study has as the purpose of understanding the maternal role in the hospitalization of preterm infants in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The research was conducted at Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro in the period between March and June of 2009. Were interviewed five mothers, married, aged between 28 and 34 years. The approach used in this study is the psychoanalysis and is based on the transference phenomenon. The research took place in a dialogical perspective and the intersubjectivity has constituted a fundamental element of this psychoanalytic investigation. The NICU can be thought of as a symbolic space to the reframing of the traumatic experience of premature birth, the extent to which you can shift between motherly and fatherly functions of babies who are hospitalized there. The construction of the maternal function depends on the relation between this mother with her own childhood, how the baby was anticipated throughout gestation and the ability to invest in her desire for her son and beyond him. The motherly care is given from a series of assignments mother to her baby, by immersing the baby in a word universe that fall into one family line and that recognizes him as a desiring being. This con only occur if the mother is narcissistically able to reinvest in their real child, living the elaboration of mourning of the imaginary son, creating a psychological space between mother and baby, which will only happens if the mother has internalized the third. Among the factors and micro factors that contribute to a good mother-infant attachment we can highlight the acceptance of the neonatal health care team and the active participation in the care of the baby. On the other hand, as barriers, we have the lack of contact at birth, the passivity of the baby receiving the maternal care and the difficulty in maintaining the confinement period due to shifts hospital-home-hospital. Yet, as a inner psychic point of view a limitation for the binding, we need to deal with the possibility of losing the baby and the difficulty of narcissistic maternal investment, which can become unbearable in a situation where the premature baby presenting a visible bad formation.

Child abuse has been more notified each day and, among cases of this specific type of violence, incest is the most common kind. This serious problem is socially faced by the rising of strategies of care offered to the victimized families, but, generally, little attention is dispensed to the incestuous abuser. The imprisonment of these men is not a strategy that covers the complexity of the problem, and it s necessary that the elements involved be explored, among which the interpersonal bonds established by the molesters and the social cultural and historic context in which these bonds take place, or else, the postmodernity. This essay aimed to investigate these elements and, specifically, comprehend the familial dynamics, life trajectory and the meanings that the incestuous scene reveals to the interviewed subjects. Based on the psychoanalytical method, they were conducted documental research and interviews with two men accused of having sexual intercourse with a daughter or step daughter. The transferential-countertransferential matter helped to reveal the manipulative bonding strategy used these men. Throughout the process, I have recognized the hideous representations that inhabited me when I met them being transformed into tender and disturbing images, essentially ambivalent. Their stories reveal precarious and disposable bonding alternatives, which were established in the numerous families they constructed throughout their lives. Immersed in the imperative joy order, in which everything is possible , the limits and interdictions have become weaker along with affective organizations assembled. The incestuous individuals, violent, but adapted to the working world and the chaotic anonymous existence, when are violent, when they submit the other and act like psychic predators, reveal themselves to be spokesmen a postmodern trend: the volatility of the interpersonal bonds, which are in constant disintegration and change.

This study aimed to identify and evaluate the mediation profile of social mothers who act in shelter contexts, due to the importance of adequate interactions which foster the ties with infant in risk situation. The search was performed in a Home model shelter institution, in a Minas Gerais state city, Brazil. Four social caregivers of children up to age six have participated on it. Observations on the institutional daily life and interviews to social worker were done as well semi-structured interviews to the social mothers. For data collecting, the moments of interaction between the social mothers and the children were video taped during routine activities such as bath, feeding, waking, playing, and watching television times. Un amount of twenty ten minutes duration films were done, five to each social mother, which corresponds to three hours and twenty minutes tape. These films were transcribed and analyzed according to mediation criteria proposed by the Mediate Learning approach: Focalization, Meaning Mediation, Reward, Behavior Regulation and Expansion. The results showed that the most used mediation criterion was the Behavior Regulation one. Sometimes, it refers to what the children can do or not; sometimes, they guide or regulate their behavior. Data showed that the dialogues are poor between the social mothers and the children. I may be due to the lack of formation of these professionals for developing this function. The study discusses the need of a continuous program to form social mothers and besides it points the relevance of further studies in order to widely understand risk childhood, which, unfortunately, is a part of the universe of a great number of children who lives in shelter context. They perhaps can guide public policies that could respond to these small Brazilian concerns and rights.

This research aims to investigate the boundaries of the psychoanalytic field that sustains the ambulatory mental health service in childhood, named Early Childhood Psychoanalysis: conjunct parents-child interventions , having the principal theoretical and clinical articulators, which are the psychoanalytic method, the transference and the metapsychological formulation of the subjective constitution. We have accomplished a hermeneutics research and through this investigative approach we looked for questions that enabled us to create and articulate new significances throughout the exercise of signifying the vivid experience, investigating the clinical processes and seeking supports for this practice. So, we outlined our route through the theoretical research, the conceptions of the process of subjective constitution of a child, language and symptom. Through the methodology research, we present the method of conjunct attendance and discuss the possibility of the psychoanalytic method being the support for the conjunct attendance, and also, the issue of the meaning and representation of infantile clinical psychoanalytic. The analytical research of this clinical model brought the issue of the transference, its impasses and characteristics of the clinic in the early childhood, and also, the discussion about the communication processes in the conjunct attendance setting. Finally, through the Clinical Research, two cases were analyzed. As a result of this trajectory we realized considerations on the naming this model of care, suggesting the switch to Psychoanalytic Attendance Parent-Child.

The firefighters have been mentioned to be vulnerable professionals to the development of the burnout syndrome as the result of a great load of emotional tension and also physical and mental stress. However, there might have some factors that protect these professionals by predicting the occurrence of the burnout, among which we highlight resilience and social support. In order to investigate this relationship, the purpose of this research was to evaluate the potential predictive power of social support at work on resilience, and its power on predicting the appearance of the burnout syndrome in military firefighters. The study included 361 firefighters from Minas Gerais, mostly males (95.8%), average age 35 (SD = 6.8 years), high school graduated (47.9%), mostly married or in stable relationships (69.8%). The data collection tools were: socio-demographic questionnaire, Escala de Caracterização do Burnout (ECB), Escala de Percepção de Suporte Social no Trabalho (EPSST); and Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10). Multiple regression analysis were performed, as well as analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t Test. The data revealed that 10% of the firefighters find themselves with high levels of burnout, followed by 23% that present an eminent risk of developing the syndrome. Social support at work has not been confirmed as a significant resilience predictor. The three dimensions of perception of social support at work and resilience presented inverse correlations with the burnout dimensions. Regression analysis showed three highlighted variables when explaining the occurrence of burnout, they are: perception of informational support at work, resilience and age. The time in the same activity has showed a significant impact concerning exhaustion and dehumanization. Perception of emotional support at work was a meaningful predictor regarding work disappointment. The results confirmed some literature findings and showed the need to keep searching for a better understanding of these burnout predictors. The study limitations have been presented and a research agenda has been proposed in order to add information to the findings of this research.

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This study aimed at investigating how the elderly with psychotic disorders of precocious beginning has aged from the social relations point of view. An interview was carried out in order to obtain sociodemographic data from the subjects, in number of 16 nine female and seven male, all of them retired, resident in the city of Uberlândia MG, between 57 and 79 year-old ages. Most of the sample (75%) has undergone psychiatric hospitalizations at least once during their disease period. Three types of information were categorized: the terms used by the subjects to refer to their psychiatric disorders; the different familiar arrangements; the subjects social activities. The subjects have been asked to describe their present social relations networks as well as the ones from the period before the beginning of the disorder, and for that, the Social Convoy diagram has been used. In the analysis of the present diagrams, it was observed an average of (17,12) people per convoy, superior to other previous studies. The convoys from the period before the beginning of the disorder had an average of nine people mentioned, a little more of the half of the present convoys. The size of the convoys was not related to the fact of the subjects having generated a family of their own, neither to their age nor to the number of hospitalizations or the duration of the disorders. The nuclear family has been the most mentioned in the present convoys inner circles, as well as in the old ones; the extended family has been the most mentioned in the other two circles of the present convoys, while in the convoys from the period before the beginning of the disorder friends have been the most mentioned. Women have mentioned other women in their convoys more frequently, but it has not happened to the men s group. The quality of the established relations seems to be damaged when one considers frequency, type of contact and social support. Therefore, there are reported social expansiveness increased, but low affection expansiveness. All the subjects have reported satisfaction with their social convoys. The qualitative analysis has been based on the Social-Emotional Selectivity Theory and on the Sociometry.

This thesis is the product of our concerns about the significant repercussions caused by parental alienation, mainly the irreversible severing of the affective bond. The researcher recognizes that parental alienation is a social product that commonly is a part of the family dynamics occurring when couples separate. Mothers and fathers dissatisfied by the separation, use their minor children as an instrument to attack their ex husband‟s or wives‟ without considering that children are legally dependent and still developing. It was verified that this alienating practice is an interdisciplinary theme of legal interest (given that it emerges within the legal system and translates into a conflict of interests requiring state intervention) and therefore developing into a psychological conflict. Thus, from an interdisciplinary perspective the researcher seeks to understand the phenomena based on the experience and the work of judiciary psychologists who focus in the legal system (family court). The sample was derived from reports provided by these professionals and subsequently a transversal and qualitative study was conducted based on relevant literature. Testimonials from people who experienced the alienating process were also used, allowing us to observe the anxiety and suffering triggered by parental alienation. Throughout the study the researcher listed determining characteristics (such as unprocessed mourning), as well as, problems encountered by people involved in the context (for example, legal morosity). It should be noted that our analysis focused primarily on the child as a person whose personality is still developing. This fact pressures parents to accept responsibly their parental role in order to promote healthy emotional development of their children. Thus, throughout the study the researcher highlighted the need for parents to be mature, in order to distinguish between conjugal and parental responsibility, given that parental alienation has as a factor the need to differentiate between these two obligations. The researcher observed that the family dynamics carries with it peculiar characteristics requiring joint intervention of legal and psychological professional possessing special abilities in family mediation. In addition to jurisprudence that clearly states the role of the state psychotherapy is mentioned and family mediation are considered possible alternatives to assist in dealing with and promoting effective and operative restoration of social peace. The researcher also suggest that the afore mentioned professionals work with parents stressing the need to distinguish between parental and conjugal responsibility and that parents clearly understand that a child needs to live with both a father and a mother ( each one occupying effectively their parental function thus contributing to the full development of the child). Finally, the research suggests that only joint interdisciplinary cooperation of the professionals involved in an understanding that is broader than judicial norms is it possible to face and inhibit in a coherent and effective manner the existing alienating practice.

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The purpose of this work is the investigation of the psychoanalytical field in private clinics and public institutions, considering that in psychoanalytical practice history we can notice moviments we could call expansion and retraction of Psychoanalysis according to the interests and beliefs ruling in the time. We can already see with Freud his revolutionary intention for a Psychoanalysis in expansion when he makes references to the articulation between Psychoanalysis and Institution and when he shows us the Psychoanalysis as an investigative method. In this dissertation the attention was directed to both situations in order to apprehend the temporal (re)dimension about the analytical process or about the healing time in clinical procedures. The time to see healing? It took us to ponderations about time, subject and healing because in the psychoanalytical perspective such ideas only make sense together. For the viabilization of this research the psychoanalytical method used was the interpretation, once Psychoanalysis is an investigative method which has an specific theorical structure produced from the method itself. It expand the cientific field allowing the possibility to examinate the human nature. Thinking about time in Psychoanalysis does not mean to suit it for the urgencies of contemporary life, or dominate it, but to enlarge its perspectives and think about it outside the standard clinic. With this intention, a percurse was made beggining with the concept of temporality that goes beyond the history of ideas, emphasizing the concept of eternity; the consequences of the idea of time in contenporary life, when we tried to emphasize that is necessary that Psychoanalysis consider the modern world s way to think. At last, a discussion was made about time in Psychoanalysis and working with the idea of logical time, with synchronism and dyachronism, we were led to the concept of unconscious intenporality, which is different of atemporality. The matter about the psychic subject constitution has for so long occupied the attention of sciences that lead its attention to the human comprehension and Psychoanalysis comes to add efforts bringing the conviction about the existence of a psychic reality and the operativity over such reality is only possible through the interpretation which can not be conditionated to a will or to previously established values, but submited to what this dissertation intents to call analytical function . When we think about healing we try to emphasize that Psychoanalysis heals the human being from the misfortunes brought by happenings of life. Articulating present and future, Psychoanalisis causes a new past, leading the subject to new meanings that allow the search for his desires. For that we based our work on clinical attendance in private clinics and public institutions, SEAPS and CENPS, believing that only based on clinical facts this discussion can be productive.