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The present study had the objective of tracking concepts in the works of Freud by verifying in which measure there could be indications of theoretical relation between Freud s meta-psychology (1915-1917) and his social texts (1913 [1912], 1921, 1927, 1930 [1929]), particularly concerning the relation between pulsion of death and the malaise in civilization (1930 [1929]), work in which Freud reveals his pessimism regarding the future of civilization. Our initial assumption for this study was that when of the production of the meta-psychological texts, even if it was unplanned, Freud had already a consistent concern with the future of civilization and that when he applied the interpretative method to the questions relating to the culture, he extended the reading of the social without, however, intending to establish his own sociology. This study intended, initially, to be only a bibliographical research and as I used the semiotic method by taking Freud s work as a speech, it opened new perspectives of analysis of the objectives. Special attention was dedicated to the concepts of identification, pulsion of death and sublimation, which lead to the understanding of both individual and social psychology. It has not been found, in this analysis, any consistent or strong indication of the pretense articulation of the meta-psychological texts (1915-1917) with the social texts of Freud, but it can be affirmed that Freud s analysis route began from the individual to the social by applying the concepts and findings of the Psychoanalysis to a wider reality than the one of normality duality X pathology, extending and making it possible new readings of the civilization. The concept of pulsion of death helps to explain the malaise in the civilization and, the psychoanalytic-meta-psychology continues to be open with its peculiarities, challenges and contradictions, waiting for new attempts for a better understanding of human social organization and contributing in this way for a more promising future.

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Personality is one of the most controversial and intriguing theme in Psychology. In a general way, it could be understood as a set of rigid patters of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors from an individual. The aim of this investigation was describe how Brazilian researches in Psychology that use cognitive, behavioral, and cognitive-behavioral therapy referential have been approaching the subject Personality in their work. We also intended to determine the frequency of publications on Personality Disorders to compare this data with the bibliographical production on Anxiety and Mood Disorders. Moreover, we tried to describe how the Personality construct - and even Personality Disorders construct - has been addressed in the work on the Anxiety and Mood Disorders chosen for this review. The PePSIC Periódicos Eletrônicos em Psicologia - e SciELO.ORG - Scientific Electronic Library Online - databases were used for research. We investigated 53 journals, including two specific Cognitive Therapies and Behavioral-Cognitive Therapy (TCC) periodicals. Within each journal, we undertook a systematic survey on publications on the themes: Personality, Personality Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depression, Dysthymia and Bipolar Disorder. A preliminary research has resulted in 218 articles. A second filter has obtained 81 articles in which we the focused on this review. There were found thirty-eight articles on Anxiety Disorders, twenty-five on Mood Disorders and eighteen on Personality Disorders. It was found that 90% of the papers on Anxiety Disorders make no reference to the term Personality or make it in a discrete way. This number rises to 96% to Personality Disorder group. Analyzing the specific journals on TCC we verified that 97% of the articles on Anxiety and Humor disorders do not cite the term Personality or cite but not explore it. This results point to the low rate of studies addressing the Personality and personality disturbs. Then, we can suggest that the difficulty on treating this Axis II disturbs has been worsened by lack of knowledge produced on the subject, either for lack of interest among researchers or because of the methodological obstacles found on this field.

The use of written communication in the clinical practice has been reported since the 1940 decade. However, it is only in the narrative therapy domain that the term therapeutic letters and its practice aimed towards intervention gain identity. These letters, differently from social letters, has context, content, intentions and effects caused on the patient and the therapist as the focus. They are more literal then diagnoses letters, exposing situations and possibilities more than explaining something. They document history, report present developments and future forecasts. From this context, the objective of this project is to investigate the meanings of therapeutic letters in psychotherapeutic groups that use this resource, specifically in relation to its written process, considering the logic that organizes its writing and the therapeutic principles used to attend specific functions. To achieve this project´s objective 12 closed character group meetings took place, with the attendance of a field therapist and two therapists that formed a reflexive team. This group was composed by 9 people, of both sexes, with ages varying from 31 to 52 years. The letters were written by the field therapist after the group sessions, and handed to the participants in the beginning of the following session. From the analysis carried out in one of the letters written by the therapist, I notice that the letters have various principles and procedures of language useful for the construction of preferred narratives, being an important document in the re-authoring process. I highlight amongst these principles: the deconstructing the subjugated self, the searching for exceptions, the maintaining a not-knowing position and the internalizing personal agency. From the process of writing the letter, the therapist uses procedures relative to each one of these principles, adding to other resources and linguistic strategies to promote determinate therapeutic objectives. This way, recognizing knowledge as a socially constructed discursive practice, the concepts and questions here presented seek to offer other possibilities of reflection and conversation, craving the expansion of available speeches relative to the issue of the letters in the therapeutic context.

The Organizational Commitment Construct has occupied a place of distinction in the field of research in Organizational behavior since the second half of the 1970´s. This relevance is justified by the interest of researchers in determining the precedents, correlates and consequences of such behavior and also through the interest of mangers on the their impact upon the Organizational context, when searching for ways to manage commitment of their employees using it as a differential in current competition However, research has pointed to gaps as to characteristics and organizational actions which trigger employee commitment to the organization. Therefore this study aimed to test a model that foresees perception of Organizational Support as a direct predecessor of the three components of Organizational Commitment Affectivity, Calculativity and Normativity - while perceptions of Organizational Culture would be indirect predecessors. Sample was composed of 202 employees, from different companies of diverse segments in the Triângulo Mineiro and region (state of Minas Gerais, Brasil) that voluntarily participated in the study. Data was obtained by applying the following scales: Club Culture Perception Scale, Culture of Function Perception Scale, Culture of Task Perception Scale, Culture Existence Perception Scale, Organizational Support Perception Scale, Affective Organizational Commitment Scale, Calculative Organizational Commitment Scale (evaluated by four factors Professional Losses, Investment Losses in the Organization, Organization Return Losses and Social Losses at Work) and Normative Organizational Commitment Scale. Twelve multiple analysis regressions were performed to test the model. The proposed model was confirmed only for Normative Organizational Commitment and for the Professional Losses factor of Calculative Organizational Commitment. Results revealed perceptions of Organizational Culture as direct predecessors of Affective Organizational Commitment. In relation to the rest of the Calculative Organizational Commitment factors (Investment Losses in the Organization, Organization Return Losses and Social Losses at Work) as independent variables were positioned on the same level. Next, multiple regressions were calculated stepwise to verify the best predictors of those criteria-variables of Organizational Commitment. Results showed that: perceptions of Cultural Existence and Club Culture were predictors of Organizational Commitment; Perceived Organizational Support was predictive of Normative Organizational Commitment and the Professional Losses factor of the Calculative Organizational Commitment; Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Culture of Function were predictors of Organization Return Losses of the Calculative Organizational Commitment; the factors referring to Calculative Organizational Commitment - Investment Losses in the Organization and Social Losses at Work were mainly predicted by Perceived Organizational Support. These results were discussed, considering the impact of independent variables in explaining employee commitment to the company and an investigation agenda was proposed.

This study is a review of the scientific production of the Brazilian Post‐graduation work in Psycho‐Oncology in Mastology, from theses and dissertations published between 2005 to 2009, whose goal is to give an overview of scientific literature in this area, in order to verify the state of the art in this new discipline. Another objective was to confront the experience as having a diagnosis of breast cancer with the literature review. Eleven studies were found and obtained from the surveys, the scientific production was described in an approximate sequence of the historical events prior to the onset of disease, impact of early emotional ties, the stress response and behavior of women with breast cancer; communicating bad news from the perspective of the patient as well as their families; of meaning and meaning production and reception of health promotion, sense of self‐care and be careful; ways of coping, quality of life, aspects of personality and cancer recurrence, and the daily institutional care leavers; issues addressed by the group of patients in the waiting room, as well as from my own experience as a woman with breast cancer, a mother and a researcher.

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The Concept of Workshop on health and education has been gradually developed and the action that unfolds it has been widely used in health centers CAPS schools and other devices that are in place. In this paper, we added an adjective to 'Workshop as TRAVELING. This is a reflection made from some questions that arose when we were ministering therapeutic workshops in an old house in a neighborhood of the city of Uberlandia/Minas Gerais (Brazil), in its huge backyard. This was a safe place saved from foreign or surprised outsiders-looks. Perhaps, it s still hidden, but occupying an intermediate place between the inside and outside. However, ‗there was a stone in the middle of the path , the clinic has gone through a crisis and decided to close the doors. We decided to develop the workshops in various parts of the town. Our experience has its anchorage in Fabio Herrmann s studies, which introduces us to Extensive Clinic, which is the extension of the psychoanalytic method to the world, i.e., for the production of human senses. And the geography of Milton Santos said, ‗everything is subject to the law of motion and renovation, including the sciences. The new is not invented, it is discovered . Our question is: after the limited space of the ‗craziness brought in the scientific, social and cultural concepts, how its private space and subjective elements can be re-built in a contemporary society? Entering the field of dialogue between two sciences, two Brazilian contemporary authors, engaged with both reflections, we aim to access and build knowledge from the relationships that arise from streets of a city that needs to be reinvented for daring to reclaim their humanity.

Breast cancer is a malignant neoplasy more commonly found among women and, wordwide, it is the second type of cancer more frequently found. The death rates due to cancer in our country is so high, probably because of late diagnosis. The goals of this study were to check and compare the adaptative efficiency and the psychological, social and occupational operation of elderly women who underwent both total and parcial breast ablation because of breast cancer. Twelve patients assisted in the Malignant Mastology sector of the HC-UFU participated in this study, forming two groups of six women; being one consisting of patients who underwent breast surgery already in old age (G1) and the other consisting of women who underwent the surgery before 60 years old (G2). The used instruments were the Operational Adaptive Diagnostic Scale (EDAO), in its two evaluation proposal (EDAO and EDAO/R) and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF). It was checked statistically significantly differences between the two groups, when comparing adaptive efficacy in elderly women with breast cancer by the EDAO/R; adaptive efficacy and the work developed by the participants according to the two evaluation proposals of EDAO; adaptive efficacy (according to EDAO) and organic functioning presented by each group of women; positive micro-factors (productivity sector) considering only the activities developed by them daily and the group of four sectors of personality functioning. In all these testes comparative analysis, G2 showed a better adaptation compared with G1. It was found intergroup positive correlations in the studies performed with G1, as to the adaptive efficacy according to the second evaluation proposal of EDAO and the sum of the fitness of affective- relational sectors and productivity; and the adaptive efficacy according to the two evaluation proposals of EDAO. Other positive correlations were checked for each one of the two groups: as to the global functioning through the GAF and adaptive efficiency according to the first evaluation proposal of EDAO, sometimes considering, through this one the organic situation shown by elderly women with breast cancer, sometimes not considering their organic functioning. It was concluded that the first evaluation proposal of EDAO, to the detriment of EDAO/R and GAF, was the most sensible instrument for adaptive evaluation and the global functioning of the studied population, for this is a scale that enables quality and quantity evaluation, considering the organic limitations shown by the subjects of the research, due both to the clinical situation of breast cancer and to the natural health decaying because of age.

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Overall, the initial researches about selective attention showed a great focus on the study of low-level and mid-level of information process. Though, there are an increasing number of studies about of high-level information influence on the selection using realistic and complex scenes. This work aims to study the semantic information in visual search. However, unlike others in the field, the method use simple physical stimulus. In the experiments, a set of arrows parallel oriented and pointed to the same direction was used as a semantic element, the hypothesis was that if the semantic information guide the attention, the search would be more efficient when the direction of the arrows were congruent with the hemifield of the target location. In experiment 1, the results showed that when the texture luminance is distinct of relevant elements, semantic information does not influence the search. In experiment 2, the congruency of texture with the target was manipulated so that in 80% of the proofs the arrows indicate the hemifield of the target location. However, the results again showed that semantic information does not influence the search. Finally, in experiment 3, activation of the texture was manipulated by a priming generated by a previous search. The results suggest that prriming of the textures feautures slowed the search, but there was no significant effect of the semantic information. Thus, was concluded that the semantic information does not influence the selection when used simple physical stimuli, being discarded when it has low similarity with the relevant stimuli.

Well-being at work is based on the Positive Psychology and can be defined as a psychological state composed by positive affective attachments with work and with the organization. This study had as objective to investigate the impact of organizational and social support at work on the well-being at work. The sample was composed by 340 workers that answered valid scales to measure the constructs: perception of social support at work, job satisfaction, job involvement, affective organizational commitment and perception of organizational support. The data were analyzed using SPSS, 12nd version, in order to calculate descriptive statistics, index of reliability for the scales, means differences and multiple regression coefficients. The main results showed that PSO explained 29% of the organizational affective commitment and 21% of the job involvement; the instrumental PSST was identified as the main variable to explain satisfaction with the salary, the task and the promotions, with percents varying between 18 and 19%; and, finally, the informational PSST and the PSO explained 23% of the satisfaction with the leaders. So, greater explanation was due to PSO and instrumental PSST, suggesting that the hospital administration must plan strategies to offer material and managerial support, and to value the contribution of the Nursing professionals, keeping in mind that the level of well-being of the health teamwork can reflect on the quality of attendance to the patients of the university hospital.

This work consisted of a bibliographic research, that the purpose was elucidate the cognitive model of emotions by Aaron T. Beck, showing relations and parallels between this model to others theoretical approaches of Philosophy and Biology (evolution and cognitive neurosciences) which either are applied to the understanding of the relation between affective and cognitive processes. From the readings of many general texts about emotions and its relations to cognitive processes, was made a selection of philosophical and biological theories that show an interface with the cognitive‟s theory and therapy, of which in Philosophy were considered the approaches of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, in Biology, the evolutionary approach of Darwin, few considerations of neo-Darwinists authors and the neuroscientific approaches of Antonio Damasio and Joseph Ledoux. The research method involved, this way, the identification and location of relevant bibliographic material, followed by its collection, through the book reports of each selected theory, and its subsequent explanation. At the end of the explanations of all theories, was made a general discussion of the Beck‟s cognitive model of emotions that is related or have parallels with Philosophy and Biology theories. Was observed that the philosophical approaches considered support the main premise of the cognitive model the cognitive centrality while the evolutionary approaches justify the comprehension of human psychology into fitted and unfitted terms, which is clear in whole Beck‟s cognitive therapeutic. The approaches of the cognitive neurosciences, on the other hand, beyond support some premises, could still provide an empiric substratum (based on the anatomy and the neurochemical operation of the brain) to the main concepts of Beck‟s theory. Concludes, that Beck‟s cognitive model was developed combining his clinical practice results to a consistent theoretical basis, which is related to different concepts of knowledge areas, the current status of his model is a global approach of the human psychology, seeking to understand the pathological and normal psychological processes on a continuum and mutual interaction and, finally, its future development could be related to coming data approaches of neuroscientific researches. It should be noted that this work doesn‟t exhaust the possibilities to comprehend the Beck‟s cognitive model of emotions. Other research, both theoretical and empirical should be undertaken looking the development of cognitive‟s theory and therapy.

The purpose of this work stemmed from concerns brought to the clinic before the presentation of a psychic former called Paradoxical States, whose manifestations of the symptoms did not allow his insights into diagnostic model practiced by the clinic in which he was apprehended, since such former indicated productions concerning the subject both to autism, such as psychosis and neurosis, not allowing their inclusion within one or other structure. During the work conceived that, before addressing the understanding of the productions articulated by the subject, the issue of Paradoxical States was linked to the model differential diagnosis. From this time there were several changes in order to cover the clinic and in the own reading about the Paradoxical States. Clinic stands out as the character variant transformation of its constituent elements including the discussion of intersubjectivity especially in the analysis of family dynamics and socio-historian-cultural time. From the Paradoxical States, built up the notion of his approach as a possible clinical situated to the psychopathology in childhood befitting the clinics of the emptiness of contemporary society. And yet, the subject perusal in Paradoxical States clinics by studying its production in speech and actions has changed as the departure of the initial model diagnosis, leaving their place as structural vacillation to a unique form of entanglement highlighting its ability articulation of the registries symbolic, imaginary and real. So with the help of the second Lacanian clinic through the horizontalization approach of the subject s production by the three registries, it was possible to understand their joints as the presentations made in the form of parental non-implies, absences, deletions, confusional states, automatism and echolalia.

This work should be seen as a locus of experiences and moves derived by Angola capoeira workshop at CAPS-ad, a rehabilitation unity which offers therapeutic accompaniment to addicts to alcohol and other drugs. The aims of this work are to apprehend and to name the meanings produced by the meeting between psychoanalysis and Angola capoeira in the operative groups formed by CAPS-ad users as well as to re-signify the understanding of toxicomania in current studies and to incite the visibility of addicts condition of marginalization and subjecting. As a psychologist researcher and an Angola capoeira practitioner, I coordinated eleven weekly meetings at CAPS-ad. During theses meetings, we performed chatting, musicalizing, and moving; besides, I interviewed CAPS-ad users who partook in the groups formed to perform such activities and who made up the operative group modality. Each meeting included these activities to make the groups reflect and grow unquiet about their social roles, their familiar bonds, and their relationship with drugs. The interpretive method based on the psychoanalytical principles resulted in analytical versions of each part of the research process, which made addicts silencing and subjecting come into view as a phenomenon that conceals the I m-an-addict identity. By taking into account the complex phenomenon of drug addiction and its psychic, social, familiar and economic aspects, this work poses a questioning of the social paradox regarding addicts, the institutional failure, and the silencing which permeates and marginalizes these people because of a lack of symbolic representation of drugs. Throughout the process, it was observed and described bodily, psychic, and social movements revealed by addicts speech and gestures in meetings and interviews. Thus, in a situation where drugs seemed to be a precarious exit in life to scenes of violence, suicide, and self-mutilation, Angola capoeira emerged as a symbolic possibility of psychic expanding and life re-signification.

This investigation arose from the need to find conceptual and theoretical support for certain clinical trials experienced with some patients were called narratives. From three clinical experiences, the research developed the hypothesis that the setting in the care of critically ill patients is configured by opening a field of fiction and interpretation may be through narrative construction. These clinical trials were being re-woven and woven throughout the development of research, so that the end is configured both as cause and product of research, and the construction of the dissertation took place in the après-coup. Initially, it was taken over the "Schreber case" of Freud that although not a treatment, appears as an analysis of a fictional work / patient critically ill through a narrative construction, the Freudian text. With the exploration of this "case" Freud, attempted to seize the psychoanalytic method in action, as understood by the theory of fields resulting in approach between narratives and delirium. The investigation of the "Schreber case" unfolded in another, where it was considered the place and the psychic economy with which Freud treated the imaginary creations in the course of production of knowledge. Before this survey, was considered the relationship with the double and the otherness existing between Psychoanalysis and Literature and the fictional character of the psychoanalytic method. Reasonable approximations between literature and psychoanalysis have been considered in several aspects: in the construction of their knowledge about human beings, in common usage the power of speech, narration and imagination and finally the sharing of a single historical moment. In that sense, Walter Benjamin's theories have become indispensable tools-ideas that were articulated: modernity, romanticism, the crisis of the narrative, the emergence of psychoanalysis, remembering the past or salvation, the social dimension of the subject, the art of narrating and telling stories or building fables. At the end of these considerations entering in the function of belief, as defined by Fabio Herrmann, come to the imaginary object. Therefore, we consider more particularly the concept of fantasy to Freud, Lacan, Herrmann and also take up the concept of Winnicott's potential space in order to delve into the foundations of narrative construction. From the reprint of these clinical trials, could articulate the following: the setting - as it restricts the transfer to protect it from interference from everyday reality - comes with the treatment by identification of the analyst-patient and asks to be constantly rebuilt by reasons arising out of your own course of treatment. In the case of critically ill patients, the construction of setting demand psychic survival of the analyst ahead the necessary identification with a kind of fragmentation and/or mental rigidity. This psychic survival generates condition to wait and allows the construction of the setting, it was possible through the foray into the literary universe / fictional.

Cinema brings in itself the power to lead the audience to have contact with different cultures and ways of being and happening to be in the world. In this sense, the educational function of the seventh art is unquestionable, being it a leading wire of the present research held in an educational environment of a prison unit in a city in Minas Gerais. Taking the concept of mediation in Vigotski, the investigation has had as objective to understand the possibilities of learning and development brought by the cinema as a learning mediator instrument. The research was held with two groups of students from a prison school: first primary and high school, with an average of 15 students/prisoners per group. Twenty two sessions were organized every fifteen days with the showing of domestic and foreign films, selected by the criterion of presenting innovations in the cinema language, be it in the plot, in the photography and/or another specific aspect of this universe. During the sessions, we have tried to promote the debate from the themes brought by the movies, instigating dialogue among the students. The methodology of research-action has led this study, once it meets the proposal of data building as well as intervention in the context of reality, the material concreteness of the subjects in the research and, in this sense; the researcher is not only an observer, but participant. We have also taken the cinema to the prison as a cultural activity, taking into consideration the specificities of the cinema universe and the limits of access to such activity imposed by confining. The prisoners were able to have contact with the cinema as art, tool and mediator instrument which has given voice to their thoughts and reflections. By watching the films, the participants could understand in such a deeper and critical way the social context in which they are, remodeling the meaning of their realities and, at the same time, developing interesting reflections about the own cinema language. As a cultural good which should be amply made available to all the subjects, this study points to the cinema as a privileged possibility in the process of humanizing in the prison context.

The act of leaving amongst teenagers of this generation allows us-or almost forces us to get to know the curious and new universe of virtual relationship through the Internet. This group is the one that has got the most used to the social networking to their everyday life, important phenomenon to take in consideration for its repercussion in the contemporaneity. One of this repercussions, questioned in here, is regarding the identity construction of these subjects facing a world where the relations are measured by the image and has delivered a whole catalog of identities fragmented and ready to be consumed, making the thought and creation an unnecessary artifice. These questions go beyond the teens universe chronologically circumscribed, has revealed the research that is about a teen condition of building their identity. It isn't just about questions related to the Internet, however, this comes to raise exponentially the problems given, to bring us to question the possibility of subjectivity along this. For this study, were brought some subjects from two distinct virtual social-networking largely speeded in Brazil, the Orkut and Twitter, analyzing some profiles and conversation also in a community for fakes. The field of the researcher relationship with such subjects, it was possible to learn logic of the identity construction such as in the islands-surrounded-by-self and the ecoísmos in the network. Apart from that taken by the large repercussion of the media in the struggles of the Arabic people against dictorship, the Egipician youth in particular involving social networks, brought to scene a point of view from both worlds in ways of subjectivity found in each context. The interpretative method was the one chosen to direct this pathway, and the Multiple Field‟s Theory, our main theorical partner, seen as we aim to expand the psychic senses of our questions from the disruption and the logic denounces structuring your routine senses. Recourses such as this support us in the construction of a prototheory about the question of be or appear-to be in the virtual world.

The increase of crime in Brazilian society has attracted the interest of a growing number of scholars. In psychology, among the aspects studied for the understanding of antisocial and criminal behaviors, there is the personality, object of study of the different fields of this discipline, such as Cognitive Psychology. Thus, in this study, it was used the Young‟s Personality‟s Schemas theory, which considers that schemas are dysfunctional cognitive or emotional patterns that are constituted in the personality (Young et al., 2008). Moreover, for antisocial and criminal conducts, it was considered the Seisdedos‟ design, which says that the first one represents a violation of social rules, that doesn‟t cause serious harm to others, while the second one causes serious injury (Formiga & Gouveia, 2003). The research aimed mainly, to verify the existence of differences in means of responses to the Scale of Antisocial and Criminal Conducts and Young Schema Questionnaire for different crimes (theft, robbery, murder, rape and drug trafficking). For this purpose, the research was applied on a sample of 355 inmates. First, it was analyzed the reliability of the questionnaires, resulting in excellents reliabilities for this sample. There were significant differences between mean responses only for criminal conducts. The schemas that presented significant differences were: Emotional Deprivation, Social Isolation, Entitlement/Grandiosity and Dependence / Incompetence. The type of conduct and schema prevalent for each offense and total sample were also verified. Antisocial conduct prevailed for total sample and all the offences, except for robbery. Moreover, Self-sacrifice was prevalent for total sample and all the offenses.

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