Creativity is a nebulous concept, lacking both clear articulations and common understandings of meaning. Due to a lack of clear alternatives the concept of creativity is increasingly becoming infused with economically driven vocabulary, associations, interests and ideologies. There is an immediate need to provide alternatives to the „creative economy‟ view of creativity, because of its insidious effect on educational institutions and practices and because it promotes a generally impoverished view of the meaning of creativity and of human potential. Reductionist thought; the tendency to understand concepts as separate and distinct from one another prevents us from easily conceptualising an experience such as creativity which involves the simultaneous experience of seemingly paradoxical elements such as individuality and unity, intellect and intuition and freedom and discipline. Democracy is a metaphor which can help to articulate and understand the paradoxical experience of creativity. Democracy stands for the potential to make meaning from the integrated exploration of individuality and of unity, which I argue is a fundamental dynamic of the creative experience. I further suggest that the essence of the creative experience is a democratic attunement to existence, in which subject and object, self and environment, intellect and intuition and freedom and discipline are experienced as in a democratic relationship with one another. This way of understanding creativity provides an alternative to the creative economy view. It implies some significant changes to traditional educational emphases, including a movement away from primarily individualistically oriented curricula and toward curricula and educational values which situate the individual within an integrated eco-system.

Creativity is a nebulous concept, lacking both clear articulations and common understandings of meaning. Due to a lack of clear alternatives the concept of creativity is increasingly becoming infused with economically driven vocabulary, associations, interests and ideologies. There is an immediate need to provide alternatives to the „creative economy‟ view of creativity, because of its insidious effect on educational institutions and practices and because it promotes a generally impoverished view of the meaning of creativity and of human potential. Reductionist thought; the tendency to understand concepts as separate and distinct from one another prevents us from easily conceptualising an experience such as creativity which involves the simultaneous experience of seemingly paradoxical elements such as individuality and unity, intellect and intuition and freedom and discipline. Democracy is a metaphor which can help to articulate and understand the paradoxical experience of creativity. Democracy stands for the potential to make meaning from the integrated exploration of individuality and of unity, which I argue is a fundamental dynamic of the creative experience. I further suggest that the essence of the creative experience is a democratic attunement to existence, in which subject and object, self and environment, intellect and intuition and freedom and discipline are experienced as in a democratic relationship with one another. This way of understanding creativity provides an alternative to the creative economy view. It implies some significant changes to traditional educational emphases, including a movement away from primarily individualistically oriented curricula and toward curricula and educational values which situate the individual within an integrated eco-system.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:22:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thais Ribari Fujioka.pdf: 1770235 bytes, checksum: 5f87973f2e4cb5d23a2712e44ed5b4ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-28 / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a solidão na relação conjugal e a conjugalidade, a partir da experiência de seis pessoas casadas. O trabalho foi dividido em quatro partes. A fim de introduzir os temas e esclarecer algumas idéias sobre os objetos da pesquisa, a primeira parte trata teoricamente, sobre algumas perspectivas da solidão e depois sobre a conjugalidade, destaca-se também um recorte da história da família e do casamento com o objetivo de contextualizar a construção da experiência do casamento e da família. Na segunda parte do trabalho foi desenvolvido o método utilizado na pesquisa qualitativa de orientação fenomenológica, que visa desvelar os elementos de significados envolvidos na relação dos sujeitos com suas experiências. A pesquisa foi realizada com três casais seis cônjuges por meio de entrevistas semidirigidas. Descreveu-se o momento empírico, o procedimento de análise de dados utilizado com base no método de Gomes (1997). Na terceira parte foram apresentados os resultados, organizados em treze categorias, das quais sete delimitaram estruturas constitutivas e operantes da vida conjugal, e seis delimitaram estruturas desconstrutivas e degradantes da relação conjugal. Na quarta e última parte, foi feita uma reflexão sobre a pesquisa, com base em alguns questionamentos. A conjugalidade é vivida como uma síntese de aspectos negativos e positivos vividos a dois, quais sejam: tolerância, solidariedade, respeito, estima, amizade, respeito, amor conjugal e amor ágape e, ainda, também pela vivência da intolerância, da falta de solidariedade, falta de estima, proteção individualista e falta de amor conjugal. Já a solidão conjugal foi compreendida pela vivência de aspectos negativos e degradantes da vida conjugal como: a intolerância, a falta de solidariedade, a falta de estima, a falta de amor conjugal, atitudes de proteção individual e pela solidão individual vivida no casamento. Assim, a solidão conjugal é resultado de um apanhado de aspectos desconstitutivos que são vividos de forma exasperada na relação a dois e que podem se intensificar por questões individuais de cada um.

Submitted by Geyciane Santos (geyciane_thamires@hotmail.com) on 2015-05-20T15:14:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação- Maria Gleny Barbosa Soares.pdf: 1473536 bytes, checksum: 3a660cea825ed798b505e943f981a27c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-20T15:14:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação- Maria Gleny Barbosa Soares.pdf: 1473536 bytes, checksum: 3a660cea825ed798b505e943f981a27c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-06 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In 2011, in Amazonas, the process of organ transplant from deceased patient in a public hospital was began; this is presented as a praxis of great spread in the State. To comprehend this process it is important to understand the historical processes of transplants, its giving practice, the therapeutic possibilities for those who are on the waiting list, and above all, the experience the families undergo specially from the donor’s mother’s perspective. The donation of organs of deceased patients in the city of Manaus is a recent program in its the health system. This program was implanted to make the therapeutics of transplants possible as a treatment for chronic renal failure. Family authorization is required especially because of the suffering they are going through. Given this great loss - usually a son or daughter – the issue is raised because of a sense of how the mother gives new meaning to the death of a child through organ donation. The purpose of this research is to comprehend the meaning attributed to the donation process in the perspective of the mothers during the post-donation phase, through the Phenomenological-Existential Psychology approach. Two articles were written: the first brings a literature revision about the theme: organ donation, family and structures aspects through the view of the Phenomenological-Existential Psychology, in which there is a general view of the process of organ donation as a translation of new signification to death/donation for the continuity of life. The second shows empirical data using the qualitative research according to the phenomenological methods having 5 son/daughter-donors, from 10 to 19 years old that went through the donation process in from 2012 to 2013, monitored by the Transplant Center of Amazonas. Four categories were created from the discourse: Life suffers with sudden transformations: the facticity; Sudden death crosses the world; Donation: the hard decision making moment; Re-signifying organ donation. The loss of a child and the decision making process towards donation is an experience that brings particular references, mixed feelings and new meanings. / No Amazonas, em 2011, iniciou o transplante de órgãos a partir de doador falecido nos Hospitais Públicos, que se apresenta como uma práxis de grande envergadura no Estado. Para a compreensão deste processo é importante o entendimento dos aspectos históricos do transplante, a prática de doar, as possibilidades terapêuticas para quem aguarda na fila de transplantes e, sobretudo, as experiências constituídas na família e na ótica das mães dos doadores. A doação de órgãos, a partir de doadores falecidos na cidade de Manaus, é um programa recente da área da saúde. Foi implantado para viabilizar a terapêutica de transplante como tratamento aos pacientes com Insuficiência Renal Crônica. Esta medida envolve a autorização da família que está em um momento da perda de seu ente para efetivar essa possibilidade. Dada essa grande perda – geralmente de um filho – o questionamento vem no sentido de como essas mães ressignificam a morte de um filho, a partir da doação de seus órgãos. O objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender o sentido e significado atribuídos ao processo da doação de órgãos na perspectiva das mães no pós-doação, à luz da Psicologia Fenomenológico-Existencial. Foram elaborados dois artigos: o primeiro traz uma revisão da Literatura acerca das temáticas: doação de órgãos, aspectos estruturais e familiares envolvidos sob a perspectiva da Psicologia Fenomenológico-Existencial, em que se empreende uma visão geral do processo doação-transplante como tradução de novas ressignificações à morte/doação para a continuidade da vida. O segundo mostra dados empíricos utilizando o viés qualitativo em pesquisa desenvolvida de acordo com os preceitos do método fenomenológico, tendo como participantes 5 mães de filhos-doadores, na faixa-etária entre 10 a 19 anos, que realizaram a doação de órgãos, no período de 2012 a 2013, acompanhadas pela Central de Transplantes do Amazonas. Foram elaboradas quatro categorias a partir dos discursos: E a vida sofre transformações abruptas: a facticidade; A morte perpassa o mundo; A doação: o difícil momento da decisão; Ressignificações da doação de órgãos. Considera-se que as vivências relacionadas à perda do filho e o processo de tomada de decisão para doação significa uma experiência que traz referências particulares, difusos sentimentos, e ressignificações.

Abstract The present study describes the learning experiences of social and health care students in the working-life projects of the Unit of the Pohjois-Savo Polytechnic in Iisalmi. The aim of the study is to describe, interpret and understand the students' experiences of the self-guided learning and to gain information and points of view for developing further the students' learning and the guidance practices. The study is based on the methodology of phenomenology and the theoretical perspective of the study on the socio-cultural view on learning. The data, consisted of the interviews and learning diaries of 13 students and data about the affectiveness of learning, was collected in 1998. The interviews and diaries were analysed qualitatively and the data gained by value measurement was analysed quantitatively. The systems for the categorisation of the qualitative part of the study were formed on the basis of the data and of the quantitative part of the study on the basis of theoretical points of view. The results showed, that learning was based on planning, problem-solving, participating, acting in a self-guided manner as well as taking part in the evaluation process and on taking responsibility. The descriptions of learning can primarily be positioned on the lowest level of critical reflection. The students thought that they had been able to utilize their experiences of work itself, its special conditions, different practices and client contacts in their learning and considered conditios as to be educational. Especially in skills of co-operation with fellow students, problem solving, self-evaluation and critical reflection the students need support to devolope the individual potential and to extend the sphere of activities. Basically, the students valued what they had learnt, especially the social interaction skills. According to them the most meaningful learning content was the substance of the work. As for factors behind their meaningful learning experiences, they first named, the challenging impact of a fellow student and behind their most meaningful learning experiences they found to be students' own backgrounds. That knowledge can be used when improving student-centered mentoring practices. The students perceived projects to promote the learnig of practical skills and comprehensive expertise. They thought they needed more mentoring than at present, especially more theacher's quidance even before entering the working-life as well during the project studies. They need support to develope further habits of the ongoing practises. The results help us to understand students' learning in daily work. These can be utilized in developing the learning method based on immediate network and carried out as a project. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Pohjois-Savon ammattikorkeakoulun Iisalmen koulutusyksikön sosiaali- ja terveysalan opiskelijoiden oppimiskokemuksia työelämäprojekteissa. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on kuvata, tulkita ja ymmärtää opiskelijoiden kokemuksia itseohjautuvasta oppimisesta ja sen perusteella saada tietoa ja näkökulmia opiskelijoiden oppimisen ja ohjauksen edelleen kehittämiseksi. Tutkimuksen metodologisena lähtökohtana on fenomenologia ja oppimisteoreettisena näkökulmana sosiokulttuurinen oppimiskäsitys. Tutkimusaineistona oli 13 opiskelijan haastattelu- ja oppimispäiväkirja-aineisto sekä oppimisen arvo-ominaisuuksia kartoittava aineisto, joka koottiin vuonna 1998. Haastattelu- ja oppimispäiväkirjatekstit analysoitiin kvalitatiivisesti ja affektimittarilla saatu aineisto kvantitatiivisesti. Tutkimuksen laadullisen osion luokitusjärjestelmät muodostettiin aineistolähtöisesti ja määrällisen osion teoreettisista lähtökohdista käsin. Tulokset osoittivat, että oppiminen perustui suunnitteluun, ongelmien ratkaisuun, toimintaan osallistumiseen, itseohjautuvasti toimimiseen, arviointiin osallistumiseen ja vastuun ottamiseen. Tutkittavien oppimista koskevat kuvaukset edustivat pääasiassa kriittisen reflektion alinta tasoa. Opiskelijat katsoivat hyödyntäneensä oppimisessaan työhön, sen erityisolosuhteisiin, erilaisiin työntapoihin ja asiakaskontakteihin liittyviä kokemuksiaan ja pitivät niitä opettavaisina. Erityisesti yhteistyötaidoissa opiskelijatoverin kanssa, ongelmanratkaisu-, itsearviointi- sekä kriittisen reflektion taidoissa tutkittavat tarvitsevat yksilökohtaista kehittymistä edistävää ja toimintamahdollisuuksia lisäävää tukea. Pääasiassa opiskelijat arvostivat oppimaansa, erityisesti vuorovaikutustaitojen oppimista. He pitivät erittäin merkityksellisenä oppimisen sisältönä työn substanssia. Keskeisenä oppimisen taustatekijänä he pitivät keskeisimmin yhteistyöhaasteita tuovia opiskelijatovereita ja erittäin merkityksellisten oppimiskokemusten taustana henkilökohtaisia tekijöitä. Saatua tietoa voidaan hyödyntää opiskelijalähtöisten ohjauskäytäntöjen edelleen kehittämiseen. Tutkittavat katsoivat projektiopintojen edistävän käytännön taitojen ja laaja-alaisen tietämyksen oppimista. He katsoivat tarvitsevansa nykyistä enemmän opettajan ohjausta projektiopintojen käytännöistä ennen työelämään menoa mutta myös sen aikana. Tutkittavat tarvitsevat kehittämistä edistävää tukea toimintakäytänteille. Tutkimuksen tulokset auttavat ymmärtämään opiskelijoiden oppimista työn arjessa. Niitä voidaan hyödyntää verkostotyöhön perustuvan ja projektina toteutuvan oppimismenetelmän kehittämiseen.

Coworking is a shared office environment for independent workers, they offer extra service in contrast to what ordinary office-hotels normally do. The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe what the essence of the phenomenon of coworking is, i.e. what characteristics make coworking perceived as coworking. This has been conducted through a phenomenological method called the EPP-method. Which makes it possible to find the essence of a phenomenon. This was done through analysis of transcribed interviews. The participants were asked to tell about their experiences of being members of a coworking place and about the interaction with other members. This provided an opportunity to answer questions about what and how individuals perceive about coworking and what meaning they attribute to their experiences. The result of the study was several essences of coworking: Coworkers, Coworking Manager, Professional Diversity, Small Business, Social Rooms and Flexible Workspace. The essences are meaning content that has been found in all seven transcriptions in the study material, ie. that the participants agreed that these points are crucial for one to perceive coworking. / Coworking är delade kontorsmiljöer för fristående arbetare, de erbjuder extra service utöver vad vanliga kontorshotell, där man bara hyr ett arbetsrum, gör. Studiens syfte var att undersöka och beskriva vad essensen av fenomenet coworking är, alltså vilka kännetecken som gör att coworking uppfattas som just coworking. Detta har undersökts med en fenomenologisk metod som heter EPP-metoden, vilken gör det möjligt att hitta just essensen av ett fenomen. Detta skedde genom analys av transkriberade intervjuer där deltagarna ombads berätta om sina upplevelser av att vara medlemmar på ett coworking-ställe och om interaktionen med andra medlemmar. Detta gav möjlighet att besvara frågor om vad och hur individerna uppfattar coworking samt vilken mening de tillskriver sina upplevelser. Resultatet blev sex essenser av coworking: Coworkers, Coworkingmanager, Yrkesmångfald, Småföretag, Sociala rum och Flexibel arbetsyta. Essenserna är meningsinnehåll som funnits i alla transkriptioner i studiens material, det vill säga att deltagarna varit överens om att dessa punkter är avgörande för att man ska uppfatta coworking. Essensen Coworkers visar på behovet av en kollegial samvaro inom kontexten coworking. Essensen Sociala rum handlar istället om den fysiska avgränsningen mellan områden som innefattar arbete och områden för sociala interaktioner. Coworkingmanager är en essens därför att den rollen påverkar huruvida deltagarna upplever coworking positivt eller negativt. Småföretag visade oss vikten av att det finns flera mindre företag på coworking-ställen och att detta leder till Yrkesmångfald som också är en essens av coworking. Avslutningsvis var Flexibel arbetsyta en framträdande essens därför att det är avgörande att medlemmarnas olika förväntningar på en fysisk arbetsmiljö tillmötesgås. / <p>2022-06-08</p>

Thesis advisor: Dorothy A. Jones / As the United States population ages, knowing and understanding the older adult couple’s experience living with chronic illness at home is significant to inform new strategies of care, and planning of resources for the improvement in the health and well-being for a potentially vulnerable population. The purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand the older adult couple’s experience while living with chronic illness at home by answering the following research questions: What is the life pattern manifested by an older adult couple living with chronic illness at home? Are there common themes across the life patterns of older adult couples living with chronic illness living at home? The theoretical framework guiding this study was Margaret Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness using a hermeneutic-dialectic phenomenology method. The study’s sample consisted of 14 married older adults (> 65 years of age) couples living together at home. The research method explored the experiences of the older adult couple through dialogue within the context of their social environment in all its complexity. This approach gave voice to the older adult couples’ experiences and their meaning from their perspective, which facilitated insights about each older adult couple as well as common themes across the older adult couples. Three themes emerged from the study, (1) an unfolding pattern of living meaningfully as an older adult couple with chronic illness while moving through life transitions, (2) couple interconnectedness strengthens the bonding within the older adult couple and promotes self-growth, and (3) a resonating process within the older adult couple promotes movement toward expanding consciousness. Conceptual models are proposed. The findings suggest older adult couples living with chronic illness at home strive to live meaningfully while experiencing multiple life transitions embedded in a resonating process that facilitates change. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing. / Discipline: Nursing.

Esta pesquisa visa a compreender o uso ritual da ayahuasca (chamado de Daime pelos participantes) na recuperação de pessoas em situação de rua pela Unidade de Resgate Flor das Águas Padrinho Sebastião, grupo situado em São Paulo. A ayahuasca é um chá feito da mistura de algumas plantas amazônicas, mais comumente o jagube e a chacrona, utilizado de forma ritual por populações indígenas e mestiças há muito tempo, e que leva a uma alteração na experiência de si e do mundo em sua ingestão. Vem ganhando espaço na sociedade brasileira para diversos usos, tendo o uso ritual-religioso regulamentado no Brasil em 2006. No entanto, seu uso terapêutico necessita de comprovações científicas para que seja permitido. Compreender estes usos é importante para a saúde pública, considerada aqui como campo de conhecimento interdisciplinar que visa a melhorar e a manter a saúde e qualidade de vida das populações por meio da compreensão das condições de vida da sociedade e de intervenções na vida coletiva dos seres humanos, pensada na perspectiva da redução dos riscos e minoração dos danos. A pesquisa foi feita numa perspectiva fenomenológica, por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com os realizadores e dois participantes do trabalho que já estiveram em situação de rua, além de observação-participante, no qual pesquisador esteve presente aos rituais e na realização das outras terapêuticas. O uso ritual da ayahuasca neste grupo se dá em conjunto com outras terapêuticas de tradição mestiça peruana, ligadas ao que é chamado na literatura acadêmica de vegetalismo, porém diferenciando-se dele em alguns pontos. A partir do que foi observado e relatado, perceberam-se alguns elementos que vão ser fundamentais para a compreensão do sentido deste uso terapêutico: experiência simbólica como aspecto principal; uso do Daime de forma ritual como relacionamento com uma alteridade sagrada que ensina; terapêuticas pensadas de formas individualizada e contextualizada; importância da relação com o dirigente como cuidador admirado e com conhecimento; noção do terapêutico ligada à despoluição de si e construção de perspectiva de vida e de ideal moral individual a ser alcançado. A partir disso que foi observado, ao final são tecidos alguns comentários em relação às possibilidades científicas de se avaliarem os possíveis riscos associados a este uso e a eficácia do uso terapêutico / This research has the objective of understanding the ritual use of ayahuasca (known as Daime by the participants of this group) for the treatment of homeless drug users by the Unidade de Resgate Flor das Águas Padrinho Sebastião, in São Paulo, Brazil. Ayahuasca is a tea made from the mixture of two Amazonian plants, most commonly the jagube and chacrona. It is used in rituals by indigenous and mestizo long and leads to a change in the experience of self and the world in its intake. Since the 1980s its use has spread to other parts of Brazil and the world and the rituals started to have different formats. After a long process, the ritual-religious use of this infusion was regulated in Brazil in 2006. However, its therapeutic use needs scientific evidence to be allowed. Understanding these therapeutic uses are important to public health, understood here as a field of interdisciplinary knowledge that aims on the improve and maintain health and quality of life for people, by understanding the living conditions of society and interventions in the collective life of human beings, thought the perspective of risk reduction and mitigation of damages. The research was done in a phenomenological perspective, through interviews with the developers of the treatment and two participants who have passed through the treatment, as well as participant-observation, in which the researcher was present at the rituals and at the realization of the other therapies. The ritual use of ayahuasca in this group is given in conjunction with other therapies based on Peruvian mestizo tradition, but differing from it in some spots. From what has been observed and reported, it was noted some elements that are crucial for understanding the meaning of therapeutic use: symbolic experience as a principal aspect; the understanding of the experience as a relationship with a sacred otherness that teaches (the tea itself); therapeutic practices are developed focused individually and in his context, the importance of the relationship with the leader, whos admired as a caregiver with knowledge, the notion of therapeutic self-cleaning, building perspective of life and an individual moral ideal to be reached. From this that was observed, at the end are a few comments about the scientific possibilities of assessing the possible risks associated with this use and effectiveness of therapeutic use

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:21:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariam Hanna Daccache.pdf: 392551 bytes, checksum: c0d3b2313fcd8526670f30a42cc82792 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-04-27 / The Psychology view upon the migratory process is one of the highest importance in times of globalization. Comprehending the experiences of children of immigrants, role players of two cultures, and the influence of such hybridism upon their identities and conducts is the aim of this study. Two Brazilian-born Lebanese children, of both genders, who lived in Lebanon for some time, happen to be the subjects of this research. The method for exploration of the meanings of this double patrium experience, has been the qualitative of phenomenological basis. The results highlight the gains in personal and interpersonal development and enrichment, acquired in this very situation. As well as the rise of conflicts in the search for an identity which translates the double-belonging. / O olhar da Psicologia sob o processo migratório é de suma importância em tempos de globalização. Compreender as experiências de filhos de imigrantes, personagens de duas culturas, e a influência deste hibridismo sobre suas identidades e condutas é o objetivo deste estudo. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são dois brasileiros, de ambos os sexos, filhos de libaneses, que viveram por algum período de suas vidas no país de origem dos pais, o Líbano. O método para exploração dos significados desta dupla experiência pátria foi o qualitativo de base fenomenológica. Os resultados assinalam os ganhos no desenvolvimento e enriquecimento pessoais e interpessoais obtidos nesta situação. Assim como o surgimento de conflitos na procura de uma identidade que traduzisse a dupla pertença.

Esta pesquisa visa a compreender o uso ritual da ayahuasca (chamado de Daime pelos participantes) na recuperação de pessoas em situação de rua pela Unidade de Resgate Flor das Águas Padrinho Sebastião, grupo situado em São Paulo. A ayahuasca é um chá feito da mistura de algumas plantas amazônicas, mais comumente o jagube e a chacrona, utilizado de forma ritual por populações indígenas e mestiças há muito tempo, e que leva a uma alteração na experiência de si e do mundo em sua ingestão. Vem ganhando espaço na sociedade brasileira para diversos usos, tendo o uso ritual-religioso regulamentado no Brasil em 2006. No entanto, seu uso terapêutico necessita de comprovações científicas para que seja permitido. Compreender estes usos é importante para a saúde pública, considerada aqui como campo de conhecimento interdisciplinar que visa a melhorar e a manter a saúde e qualidade de vida das populações por meio da compreensão das condições de vida da sociedade e de intervenções na vida coletiva dos seres humanos, pensada na perspectiva da redução dos riscos e minoração dos danos. A pesquisa foi feita numa perspectiva fenomenológica, por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com os realizadores e dois participantes do trabalho que já estiveram em situação de rua, além de observação-participante, no qual pesquisador esteve presente aos rituais e na realização das outras terapêuticas. O uso ritual da ayahuasca neste grupo se dá em conjunto com outras terapêuticas de tradição mestiça peruana, ligadas ao que é chamado na literatura acadêmica de vegetalismo, porém diferenciando-se dele em alguns pontos. A partir do que foi observado e relatado, perceberam-se alguns elementos que vão ser fundamentais para a compreensão do sentido deste uso terapêutico: experiência simbólica como aspecto principal; uso do Daime de forma ritual como relacionamento com uma alteridade sagrada que ensina; terapêuticas pensadas de formas individualizada e contextualizada; importância da relação com o dirigente como cuidador admirado e com conhecimento; noção do terapêutico ligada à despoluição de si e construção de perspectiva de vida e de ideal moral individual a ser alcançado. A partir disso que foi observado, ao final são tecidos alguns comentários em relação às possibilidades científicas de se avaliarem os possíveis riscos associados a este uso e a eficácia do uso terapêutico / This research has the objective of understanding the ritual use of ayahuasca (known as Daime by the participants of this group) for the treatment of homeless drug users by the Unidade de Resgate Flor das Águas Padrinho Sebastião, in São Paulo, Brazil. Ayahuasca is a tea made from the mixture of two Amazonian plants, most commonly the jagube and chacrona. It is used in rituals by indigenous and mestizo long and leads to a change in the experience of self and the world in its intake. Since the 1980s its use has spread to other parts of Brazil and the world and the rituals started to have different formats. After a long process, the ritual-religious use of this infusion was regulated in Brazil in 2006. However, its therapeutic use needs scientific evidence to be allowed. Understanding these therapeutic uses are important to public health, understood here as a field of interdisciplinary knowledge that aims on the improve and maintain health and quality of life for people, by understanding the living conditions of society and interventions in the collective life of human beings, thought the perspective of risk reduction and mitigation of damages. The research was done in a phenomenological perspective, through interviews with the developers of the treatment and two participants who have passed through the treatment, as well as participant-observation, in which the researcher was present at the rituals and at the realization of the other therapies. The ritual use of ayahuasca in this group is given in conjunction with other therapies based on Peruvian mestizo tradition, but differing from it in some spots. From what has been observed and reported, it was noted some elements that are crucial for understanding the meaning of therapeutic use: symbolic experience as a principal aspect; the understanding of the experience as a relationship with a sacred otherness that teaches (the tea itself); therapeutic practices are developed focused individually and in his context, the importance of the relationship with the leader, whos admired as a caregiver with knowledge, the notion of therapeutic self-cleaning, building perspective of life and an individual moral ideal to be reached. From this that was observed, at the end are a few comments about the scientific possibilities of assessing the possible risks associated with this use and effectiveness of therapeutic use