The subjective senses of adolescents with cancer / Os sentidos subjetivos de adolescentes com câncer

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2008

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This paper is the result of a qualitative study based on the Subjectivity Theory and the Qualitative Epistemology, both developed by Gonzalez Rey. Mainly, it aims at analyzing and discussing subjectivity configurations of adolescents with cancer. It focuses on the singularity of the subject who falls ill and it is based on a complex discussion on the healthdisease process. The research was developed from four case-studies with 13-19-year-old adolescents who were in a support house. As the research instrument, we used the conversational dynamic and the phrasal complement. The discussion in this paper was made and elaborated for each case-study using a constructive-interpretative analysis on the sense zones. In them we see some common elements as: social representations of cancer, the impact of the diagnostic, the familiar and social relations, body transformations as a result of the treatments collateral effects, and the interference of the nosocomial routine in an adolescent life. It can be concluded, as a result, that each adolescents subjective production is unique to his/her life history, culture, values and habits, and the actual context. Therefore, the adolescents production of subjective senses of cancer werent limited to the symbolic space of the adolescence or the cancer. They integrated subjective senses constituted in other of his/her life spheres. Our study presents the importance of rescuing the singularity of the subject with cancer in the medical intervention as well as in the psychological support and in the development of scientific studies. Even more, it was due to the valorization of the singularity that was possible to develop the category of research-therapy. It refers to an inter-relational space generated between the researcher and the adolescent, and which wasnt restricted only to the research development, but allowed the affective attachment and the psychotherapeutic acceptance with this researchs young participants.

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subjetividade e câncer adolescência sentidos subjetivos psycho-oncology adolescence psicologia subjective and cancer subjective senses psicooncologia

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