Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo problematizar as possibilidades de um sentido ético e político para a ação territorial em saúde como intervenção em saúde pública, através do Programa Saúde da Família (PSF), a partir da experiência de profissionais que a exercem. O cenário do estudo em questão, portanto, é o da atenção à saúde, no campo das políticas públicas. Tal investimento justificou- se pela existência de poucos estudos sistematizados em torno deste tema, dada a necessidade de aprofundar uma reflexão sobre a formação profissional para tal intervenção. Contudo, apresentou-se, também, como possibilidade de reflexões sobre a avaliação do PSF. Caracterizou-se como uma pesquisa fenomenológica existencial, em que se lançou mão da metodologia de relatos orais. Os interlocutores foram nove profissionais de saúde pública do município do Cabo de Santo Agostinho-PE, envolvidos na estratégia de ação territorial em saúde a partir do PSF. A escuta das narrativas aconteceu em dois momentos: uma discussão grupal com todos os participantes e uma entrevista individual posterior, proporcionando-se espaço para que os profissionais falassem de sua prática e experiência nesse modo de atuação. A própria metodologia revelou-se promotora de experiência, na medida em que propiciou reflexão sobre a forma de cuidar, gerando sentido para o fazer. Mostrou-se, ainda, como uma possibilidade de cuidar do cuidador. Destaca-se seu caráter interventivo de pesquisa, segundo referenciais da Psicossociologia Clínica. A interpretação das narrativas colhidas apontou aspectos diversos sobre o tema, como: a dissonância entre os objetivos propostos do PSF e a ação real/possível, a importância de repensar os contextos de formação profissional, a necessidade de reflexão em torno do fazer e as dificuldades para a realização de um trabalho efetivamente coletivo, requisito dessa ação territorial em saúde / This research had as main objective to open possibilities of an ethical and political meaning for the territorial action in health as an intervention in public health, through the Familys Health Program, based on the experience of professionals who perform it. The scenery of the study is the public policies field concerning health care. Such investiment was due to rare systematic studies on the theme, in order to deepen some reflection on the professional formation for this kind of intervention. Yet, it showed a possibility to point reflections on the evaluation of the Familys Health Program. The research is based on the existential phenomenological approach and on the oral narratives methodology. The colaborators were nine public health professionals from Cabo de Santo Agostinho-PE, engaged in the strategy of the territorial action in health through the Familys Health Program. In order to collect the narratives, two moments were designed: a group discussion and an individual interview, some time after the group. Both procedures provided a situation for the professionals to talk about their practical experience in such a kind of action. The methodology was appropriated to promote experience, making it possible to think out a way of caring in order to produce meaning for their work. In this sense, the procedure presented itself as a way of taking care of who takes care, highlighting a comprehension of research as an intervention act, as pointed by the Clinical Social Psychology referential. The narratives interpretation indicated various aspects about the theme, such as: discrepancy between the objetives of the program and the real/possible action, importance of thinking over the context for professional formation, need to reflect on the acting and difficulties to construct an effective collective job, as required by this kind of territorial action in health

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral compreender a experiência de psicólogos que adotam a perspectiva fenomenológica existencial em sua ação clínica, e tem como objetivos específicos: descrever como se deu o percurso acadêmico - profissional até a escolha da linha fenomenológica existencial; apreender os pressupostos fenomenológicos existenciais que norteiam a ação clínica desses psicólogos e compreender como os psicólogos que adotam essa perspectiva percebem suas possibilidades e limites. A metodologia tem um enfoque qualitativo numa perspectiva clínico interventiva. O instrumento será o depoimento (com pergunta disparadora) dos psicólogos (sujeitos colaboradores). As narrativas consequentes, fundamentadas como possibilidade de elaboração da experiência vivida, a partir de Benjamin e Schmidt, serão submetidas posteriormente à analítica do sentido proposta por Critelli, como procedimento de investigação e análise fenomenológica. Os resultados apontaram que todos os entrevistados partiram de uma insatisfação do que lhes era oferecido, para, de maneira tranquila ou mais intensa, lenta ou subitamente, sentirem-se profundamente tomados pela perspectiva que escolheram. A sensação de um encontro vivido com profunda emoção marcou a cada um dos narradores, que, apesar da passagem do tempo, traziam com muita jovialidade e frescor esse momento de suas vidas. Vidas, existências que se sentiram em harmonia, integridade, coerência, comumente comentando a união de seus pontos de vista, visão de homem, como frisaram insistentemente com a perspectiva de ação clínica da fenomenologia existencial. A todos movia a exigência de uma escolha profissional profundamente entrelaçada com a historicidade de cada um. Em nossa região, a concepção fenomenológica existencial foi introduzida pelas psicologias contemporâneas que incorporam o ideário humanista existencial. Entre nossos entrevistados todos se identificam com essa perspectiva. Temáticas muito caras a esse movimento foram frequentemente citadas como fundamentais à ação clínica de nossos sujeitos colaboradores: liberdade-responsabilidade, singularidade-multiplicidade, escuta clínica-empática, sentido, significado, abertura ao novo, angústia e morte. Entretanto, exceto em um de nossos entrevistados, que se sente em transição, e em função desse momento particular, expõe criticamente as concepções dos diversos autores e movimentos que transitam no campo, os demais associam livremente conceitos do humanismo existencial, com analítica da existência. A certeza da escolha correta, a satisfação no trabalho clínico matizou o grupo de entrevistados. Certamente é com esse estado de humor que avaliaram os limites de sua própria ação clínica. De maneira unânime, acreditam que as dificuldades estão relacionadas a insuficiências dos próprios profissionais, sejam ligadas a sua própria história, ao exame de si mesmo ou de apreenderem com mais profundidade as concepções que a fenomenologia existencial propõe / This research intends to comprehend the experience of psychologists who develop the existential phenomenological perspective in their clinical activity and holds up specific objectives as describing the trajectory of the academic and professional process until the choice of existential phenomenological approach. It also tries apprehend the existential phenomenological assumptions that lead the clinical activity of these psychologists and understand how psychologists who take this view realize their possibilities and limits. The methodology is focused on a clinical intervention with a qualitative approach. The instrument of the research will be held through psychologists testimonials (collaborators characters). The narratives, based on Benjamin and Schmidt as a possibility of life experience, are undergone subject to further to analytical sense proposed by Critelli as a procedure investigation and phenomenological analysis. The results showed that all interviewed based on a dissatisfaction of what was offered to them, in a quiet or more intense way, slowly or suddenly, they felt themselves more deeply taken by the prospect of their choice. The sensation of a meeting, lived through great emotion, marked each one of the narrators that despite the passage of time brought with great liveliness and freshness the lived moment from their lives. Lives, existences that have felt in harmony, integrity, coherency, speaking about their points of views, mans view, as they strongly emphasized at the prospect of clinical activity of existential phenomenology. The requirement for a professional choice is deeply intertwined with the history of each one, that was really the fact of their motivation. In our region, the existential phenomenological conception was introduced by contemporary psychologies that promoted existential humanist ideals. All of the interviewed identified themselves with this perspective. Themes to this movement were often cited as essential during the action of our collaborators characters: freedom-responsibility, singularity, multiplicity, clinical and empathy listening , sense, meaning, openness to new, anguish and death. However, except for one of our interviewed, who considering himself into the transition process, and due this particular moment, shows critically the conceptions of several authors and movements of the highlighted field. The other ones openly associate existential concepts of humanism with the analytical existence. The certainly of the correct choice, and the satisfaction with the clinical effort offered different ways to the interviewed group. Certainly, it is through this mood that they assessed the limits of their own clinical activity. So, in a general way, they believe that the difficulties are related to inadequacy of the professionals, that is, the difficulties may be linked to their own history, to the examination of themselves or to the deep learning of the concepts proposed by existential phenomenology

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O mote da presente pesquisa é perseguir os sentidos postos em circulação no Rio de Janeiro entre 1945 e 1955 sobre o existencialismo, em especial vinculado às ideias de Jean-Paul Sartre. Fortemente relacionado ao ambiente francês do pós-guerra, o existencialismo aqui é intencionado como produto que passa pelo crivo da carioquice, dialogando, por exemplo, com o carnaval e com as gestões de Vargas e Dutra. Das matérias jornalísticas coletadas em A Manhã e Última Hora, ambos periódicos cariocas importantes na época aqui focalizada, emergem três eixos principais: a encenação do existencialismo no campo político e religioso carioca; a circulação dessa filosofia entre os intelectuais brasileiros, bem como um levantamento das produções culturais conectadas ao existencialismo que circularam pela então capital nacional; e, por fim, a criação de certa moda existencialista no Rio e no país, atrelada a certos papéis de gênero, crimes, vícios, depravação. O que se afirma, afinal, é o quanto o existencialismo que circula pela cidade é menos um ismo de importação, noção presente em uma das matérias de jornal coletadas, do que uma produção também brasileira

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Pimentel.pdf: 1765473 bytes, checksum: f95412d26d6558b72abca608f2d062c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-09 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Adolescence is a period characterized by continuous changes, at level physical and social, that generate implications in construction of identity, in the actions of the individual and the form to see the world, a period also marked by the adoption of risky behavior and vulnerability experience, such as early contact and unprepared manner with sexuality, resulting in many situations the diagnosis of STDs / AIDS. The experience of living the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS with adolescents is a topic of extreme importance today, in view of, the state of Amazonas showed a rapid growth in recent years. Before the diagnosis, unveil the being-in-world-with-teen with AIDS means entering their vulnerabilities and understand the various dimensions present therein. That way, this master dissertation linked to the Postgraduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Amazonas has aimed at understanding in the light of existential-phenomenology, the meanings attributed by adolescents to experience the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS, the meaning in his speeches. To carry out this study we used the qualitative bias in research and how the method Phenomenological of Research in Psychology, understanding that in this manner, from their lived world, would come the understanding of how the participants lived the searched experience. From the speeches were seized Meanings Units that gave the following Analysis Categories: 1. The experience of the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS and their peculiarities; 2. Timeliness and diagnosis of HIV / AIDS; 3. Be-with-the-other and adolescents living with HIV / AIDS; and 4. The affection present on the living of diagnosis. The categories served to understand the existential these adolescents before the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS, providing a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon "be-teen-living-with-thediagnosis- of-HIV / AIDS". The study revealed that the experience of the diagnosis of HIV / AIDS is meant as a momment of great impact and generator of sharp changes in various areas of life: personal, family and social. Showing here the experiences of diagnosis, early symptoms, side effects of medication, emotional and social conflicts, preconception, pain in communicating of diagnosis, outlook and concern for the future, but with overcoming possibilities / A adolescência é um período caracterizado por contínuas mudanças, a nível físico e social, que geram implicações na construção da identidade, nas ações do indivíduo e na forma de ver o mundo, período também marcado pela adoção de comportamentos de risco e experiências de vulnerabilidade, tais como o contato precoce e de maneira despreparada com a sexualidade, acarretando em diversas situações o diagnóstico de DSTs/AIDS. A experiência da vivência do diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS com adolescentes é uma temática de extrema importância nos dias atuais, tendo em vista que, o Estado do Amazonas apresentou um crescimento vertiginoso nos últimos anos. Diante do diagnóstico desvendar o ser-no-mundo-sendo-adolescente com AIDS significa adentrar suas vulnerabilidades e compreender as várias dimensões ai presentes. Dessa maneira, esta dissertação de mestrado vinculado ao Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Amazonas tem como objetivo compreender, à luz da Fenomenologia-Existencial, os sentidos atribuídos por adolescentes à experiência do diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS, o significado em seus discursos. Para realizar este estudo foi utilizado o viés qualitativo em pesquisa e como método o Fenomenológico de Pesquisa em Psicologia, entendendo que dessa maneira, a partir de seu mundo vivido, adviria a compreensão do modo como os participantes vivenciaram a experiência pesquisada. A partir dos discursos foram apreendidas Unidades de Significados que originaram as seguintes Categorias de Análise: 1. A vivência do diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS e suas particularidades; 2. Temporalidade e diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS; 3. Ser-com-o-outro e o adolescente convivendo com HIV/AIDS; e 4. O afeto presente na vivencia do diagnóstico. As categorias serviram para compreender a existencialidade desses adolescentes diante do diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS, possibilitando a síntese compreensiva do fenômeno “ser-adolescente-convivendo-com-o-diagnóstico-de-HIV/AIDS”. O estudo revelou que a experiência do diagnóstico de HIV/AIDS é significado como um momento de grande impacto e geratriz de modificações acentuadas nos mais variados setores da vida: pessoal, familiar e social. Evidenciando aqui a vivencia do diagnóstico, primeiros sintomas, efeitos colaterais da medicação, conflitos emocionais e sociais, preconceito, a dor na comunicação do diagnóstico, perspectivas e preocupação com o futuro, mas com possibilidades de superação

O tema abordado nessa tese refere-se à constituição do sujeito contemporâneo dentro de uma perspectiva cultural especificamente marcada pela experiência religiosa: a devoção a Nossa Senhora de Nazareth em Morro Vermelho (Caeté/MG). Utilizando-se desse campo fértil de expressão da nossa cultura brasileira as festas populares , buscamos investigar, descrever e discutir como, dentro desse contexto, emerge a experiência do pertencer como uma maneira de conceber a si mesmo. Para alcançar esse objetivo, verificamos como a experiência comunitária em Morro Vermelho, ordenada pela devoção mariana, contribui para a dinâmica do pertencer, ensejando a experiência de pertença local. Para isso, foi necessário: a) análise de três entrevistas coletadas durante os preparativos e a realização propriamente dita da festa de Nossa Senhora de Nazareth, em 2001, à luz da seguinte problematização: a relação entre o desenvolvimento da devoção, para os moradores de Morro Vermelho, e a emergência da experiência de pertencer a esse local; b) o delineamento dos elementos presentes na experiência comunitária dessa vila que favorecem a experiência do pertencer; c) a compreensão da dinâmica do pertencer, assim como vivida pelos entrevistados, e a sua influência na consciência que eles têm de si. Escolhemos a Fenomenologia Clássica de Husserl como método de análise, apoiando-nos também em alguns adeptos dessa escola filosófica, que nos auxiliaram na compreensão dos passos necessários para alcançarmos os significados essenciais da experiência assim como vivida pelos sujeitos reais, em consonância com a contribuição própria da Psicologia. Em seguida, mostramos o percurso comum da pertença entre os entrevistados, através da elaboração da experiência-tipo, identificando dois eixos comuns: a) conhecimento, verificação e relacionamento pessoal com Nossa Senhora de Nazareth: que ressalta o desenvolvimento da devoção para cada entrevistado, até o processo de verificação da tradição recebida; e b) do relacionamento pessoal com Nossa Senhora de Nazareth, nasce a construção da festa: que revela o comprometimento pessoal dos entrevistados com a festa, por meio do chamado a realizar uma tarefa específica nas comemorações marianas, a memória do relacionamento com a Santa como o lugar da pertença e a resposta ao chamado da Padroeira como uma manifestação de gratidão e expressão do pertencer. Após essa etapa, dialogamos com alguns autores, a partir de temáticas que apareceram na análise e na elaboração da experiência-tipo, tais como: a importância do conhecimento tradicional para a modernidade, a função da tradição oferecer raízes para a alma e como acontece a relação de pertença a um determinado povo. Por fim, realizamos o que a perspectiva fenomenológica intitula reconstrução teórica do vivido, a partir do confronto entre a estrutura da vivência de pertença dos entrevistados de Morro Vermelho como uma concepção de si e a contribuição de alguns autores, em conformidade com a elaboração da experiência dos depoentes, estruturada em três pontos: a) a origem do pertencer é uma tradição viva: a oferta de um referencial; b) a apreensão do significado da tradição: condição para um pertencer consciente; e c) a consciência de pertencer se concretiza na construção da festa: pertença como concepção de si mesmo. / This thesis refers to the contemporary individual constitution in a cultural perspective specifically marked by the religious experience: the devotion to Our Lady of Nazareth in Morro Vermelho (Caeté/MG). We investigated, described, and discussed - through this fertile field of expression in our Brazilian culture, our popular celebrations how the experience of belonging emerges as a way of oneself´s conception in this context. To reach this objective, we analyzed how the community experience in Morro Vermelho, ordered by the Mariana devotion, contributes to the sense of belonging dynamic, giving opportunity to the local experience. For this it was necessary: a) the analysis of three interviews collected during the preparation and party of Our Lady of Nazareth, in 2001, facing the following situation: the relationship between the development of devotion, for the citizens of Morro Velho, and the manifestation of the sense of belonging experience to this place; b) the description of the elements in the community life of this village that help in the sense of belonging experience; c) the understanding of the dynamic of the sense of belonging, as it is experienced by the interviewees, and its influence in their self-awareness. We chose the Classic Phenomenology by Husserl as the analysis method, as well as some of his followers, what helped in the comprehension of the necessary steps to reach the essential meanings of the experiences lived by the real individuals, in accordance to the Psychology contribution. After that, we showed the common path of the belonging feeling among the interviewees, through the elaboration of the experience, identifying two common axes: a) knowledge, verification, and personal experience with Our Lady Nazareth: that emphasizes the development of the devotion for each interviewee, until the process of verification of the received tradition and b) from the personal relationship with Our Lady Nazareth, the party organization starts: which reveals the personal commitment of the interviewees to the party, through the requirement to make the specific task in the Mariana celebrations, the memory of the relationship with the Saint as a place of belonging and the answer to the requirement from the patroness as a manifestation of gratitude and expression of the belonging feeling. After this step, we interact with some authors, using themes from the analysis and elaboration of the experience, such as: the importance of the traditional knowledge for the modern life, the function of the tradition to offer roots for the soul and how the relation of the sense of belonging happens in a group of people. In the end, we made the theoretical reconstruction according to the a phenomenological perspective of the experiences, based on the confrontation between the structure of the sense of belonging experience of the interviewees from Morro Vermelho as a self-conception and the contribution of some authors, according to the experience elaboration of the witnesses, structured in three ways: a) the origin of the sense of belonging is a live tradition: the offer of a frame of reference; b) the apprehension of the meaning of the tradition: the basis for a conscious belonging feeling; and c) the conscience of belonging gets concrete in the construction of the party: sense of belonging as a self-awareness.

M.A. / Spousal abuse has been a practiced for decades across many cultures. According to the Domestic Violence Act, 1998 of S.A. spousal abuse consists of physical, sexual, emotional verbal psychological and economic abuse as well as various forms of intimidation by a spouse. Abuse against women and children seems to be entrenched in gender power equalities and hierarchical gender relations prevalent in society. The advent of feminism, that deals with issues of inequality between the genders, in the nineteenth century highlighted the problem of spousal abuse and challenged cultural and patriarchal notions of women. In South Africa spousal abuse is alarmingly prevalent and deeply ingrained within our society and is often viewed as a normative rather than a deviant practice. The legacy of political repression, a declining economy and diminishing job opportunities, insufficient educational opportunities and racial and ethnic divisions, has for decades generated deep rooted divisions in our society. Women in particular are the historically the victims of political and economic exclusion and have suffered the ravages of patriarchy, sexism and discriminatory practices that have kept them outside of social, political and economic power structures. In this process, abuse against women has been subtly sanctioned by society. This reflects the extent to which exploitation and abuse, in varying forms, have come to pervade the very foundations of our society and have become a socially sanctioned instrument for resolving conflict and promoting change. Because of the continued cultural sanctioning of spousal abuse it is often underreported, making statistics on the subject extremely difficult to obtain. The present study explored the women’s endogenous factors that contributed to the maintenance of their abusive spousal relationship. In essence these factors refer to the thoughts, feelings and beliefs which are significant in the experience of being in an abusive relationship. The study further looked at how these endogenous factors entrap women in abusive relationships. In order to contextualise the experience of being in an abusive spousal relationship the literature review (which makes up the first four chapters 2 of this study) concentrated on several different areas. The first chapter addresses the aims and motivations of the present study. The second chapter deals with established theories and thoughts about the existence of spousal abuse in relationships. Theoretical explanations highlighting some of the endogenous maintaining factors in an abusive spousal relationship are presented. These include psychodynamic theories, systems theory, feminism, eco-systemic approach, social constructionism and postmodernism. The third chapter deals with women’s responses to spousal abuse. The fourth chapter deals with the interaction between women’s socialisation and their response to spousal abuse. It would seem that abused woman find themselves in varying contradictory interactional contexts. Their spouse represents the person who loves them the most, yet he hurts them the most too. Their calls for support by informing others are seen as dishonouring their families yet when they decide to keep the abuse quiet they are condemned. These paradoxes confront abused women when they are in need of help, support and understanding. These cultural and societal norms are confusing and inconsistent, together with various emotions, serve to paralyse the abused women and limit their choices.

This study explored the ways in which the racial identities and lived experiences of Black male K-12 public and independent school leaders inform their professional lives and leadership. Through a qualitative phenomenological study, use of online descriptive survey, and in-depth semi-structured interviews, including the use of visual elicitation methods, with 14 Black male school leaders from across the United States, this research study provided structural and textural descriptions as well as a synthesis of meanings and essence of the experience and phenomenon of Black male K-12 school building-level leadership. This can be summarized as: (a) growing up as a Black boy; (b) leadership as ministry; (c) when a Black man is in the principal’s office; and (d) safeguarding the village. The research expands understanding of paradigms of critical race leadership and disrupts the normative educational leadership axiology. These leaders developed a range of strategies that enabled them to navigate the multidimensional aspects of their racial identity within a dominant White-racialized education system. Additionally, their articulation of action-oriented social justice leadership was influenced by their personal lived experiences, values, and sense of community.

This thesis explores how gender inequality in the photographic staff of the main Colombian media outlets, has established a hegemonic view of representation and examines the way recent social outbursts in the country, have been the ideal setting for the rise of citizen journalism, visual activism, and new visual citizenships. It seeks to present how diverse individuals, including female photojournalists are producing alternative visual narratives and igniting a paradigm shift on traditional photojournalism. By embracing new digital visualities and depictions of the other, these individuals are confronting traditional media organizations, questioning their visual narratives, inclusion, and representation policies.   Positioned from a Phenomenological and Feminist Media Theory standpoint, this project aims to observe this phenomenon from the bottom up, building from the experiences of the subject’s study. This project will consider emotions, affections lived experiences of three Colombian female photojournalists in active exercise of their profession, who will take part of this study, and those experiences will be basic inputs of interpretation. I contend that not sufficient research has been done on this topic, and expose an evident research gap, existing in Latin-American and Colombian Media Studies, since it’s connected to new technologies, recent social change and in general, a phenomenon still developing. Drawing from a Phenomenological Psychology field methodology, data will be obtained through semi-structured interviews and examined with coding and interpretation tools provided by this discipline. This study concludes how the female body becomes a political and visual signifier exercising an embodied practice in photojournalism, but also by emotions connected to what they are seeing through their lenses, which in turn, produces affective visualities and narratives many times, opposed to the claims of objectivity, rationality and newsworthiness traditional journalism stands for.

The purpose of this study was to explore what keeps nurses in nursing by examining the impact of the relational experiences between the nurse and her or his patient in the context of the nursing situation. Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology grounded the study and was the method used to interpret the registered nurse participants' meaning of their everydayness. The nurses' first hand perspectives elicited implications for nursing practice. This qualitative research study examined what keeps nurses in nursing. The eight registered nurse participants provided rich descriptive data from which four relational themes emerged: Practicing from Inner Core Beliefs, Understanding the Other from Within, Making a Difference, and Nursing as an Evolving Process. The hermeneutical interpretative process guided the researcher to synthesize the themes into a constitutive pattern of meaning which the researcher named Intentional Compassion Energy. In intentional caring consciousness, the nurse intentionally knows the nursed as whole. Compassion energy is the intersubjective gift of compassion that gives nurses the opportunity to be with the nursed. Compassion energy is composed of compassionate presence, patterned nurturance and intentionally knowing the nursed and self as whole. Thus, intentional compassion energy is defined as the regeneration of nurses' capacity to foster interconnectedness when the nurse activates the intent to nurse. Intentional compassion energy was discovered in the meaning of the nurse participants being in their everydayness of practice. The participants described the intention to care compassionately as the grounding of their practice, striving to understand the other, to make a difference while living their nursing as an evolving process. Hermeneutic phenomenology provided the opening to discover what keeps nurses in nursing. / by Dorothy J. Dunn. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:37:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Cristina Longobardo Simone.pdf: 665241 bytes, checksum: f49c800fc704228309961f4d060c71e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In times hypermodern, major advances in biotechnology are not yet sufficient to nullify all human suffering in adversity of the disease. The phenomenon of illness, given its complexity, involves conflicts in the dimensions physical, psychological, social, spiritual and existential. In the last decade, many studies have been concerned with the welfare of people living with chronic diseases. Many of these studies evaluate instruments through the quality of life for people with Chronic Renal Failure lifting quantitative aspects that suggest further elaboration. This gap in an attempt to engage with empirical data, this study aims to know the ways chosen to give meaning to illness and the meanings attributed by the person in daily life in hemodialysis treatment. In order to understand the direction of taking care of himself there, a man full of vision, a survey was conducted qualitative field phenomenological interviewing six adult participants who perform the renal replacement therapy at a private clinic in Sao Paulo. In-depth interviews were conducted with stimulating questions, for data analysis using the phenomenological reduction. In the analysis of the interviews the meaning of illness appears as ominous and uncontrollable. The responsibility for taking care of our own existence is transferred to another person pointing to lack of ownership and autonomy. In this direction, highlighted the ways of transcendence were religious coping, interpersonal relations and the ideal kidney transplant / Em tempos hipermodernos, os grandes avanços da biotecnologia ainda não são suficientes para anular todo sofrimento humano na adversidade da doença. O fenômeno do adoecer, por sua complexidade, envolve conflitos nas dimensões físicas, psíquicas, sociais, espirituais e existenciais. Na ultima década, muitos estudos têm se preocupado com o bem-estar de pessoas convivendo com doenças crônicas. Muitos destes estudos avaliam por meio de instrumentos a qualidade de vida de pessoas com Insuficiência Renal Crônica levantando aspectos quantitativos que sugerem maior aprofundamento. Nesta lacuna, na tentativa de dialogar com os dados empíricos, este trabalho tem como objetivo conhecer os modos escolhidos para dar sentido ao adoecimento e os significados atribuídos pela pessoa na vivência cotidiana no tratamento em hemodiálise. Com a intenção de compreender a direção do cuidado com o próprio existir, numa visão de homem integral, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo qualitativa de abordagem fenomenológica entrevistando seis participantes adultos que realizam o tratamento renal substitutivo em uma clínica particular na cidade de São Paulo. Foram realizadas entrevistas em profundidade com questões estimuladoras, utilizando para análise de dados a redução fenomenológica. Na análise das entrevistas o significado do adoecer aparece como fatídico e incontrolável. A responsabilidade do cuidado da própria existência é transferida à outra pessoa apontando para ausência de protagonismo e autonomia. Nesta direção, as maneiras de transcendência evidenciadas foram o enfrentamento religioso, as relações interpessoais e a expectativa do transplante renal