The relationship between feminist and anti-asylum struggles in Brazil is deeply intertwined in the history of public policies and social movements. Cisgender, transgender, and travesti women play a leading role in these movements, both as mental health workers and as users and family members. This intertwining is evident in the socio-historical construction of madness, gender articulations, and disputes over social rights. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted social inequalities and setbacks, especially in mental health policy and the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS). The dissertation analyzes the impact of feminist movements on the promotion and advocacy of public mental health policies in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, amid a challenging state scenario. The ethnographic field research, anchored in counter-colonial and feminist methodologies, included participant observations, conversations, and narrative interviews with 2 activists from feminist movements, namely the Black Women's Network of Pernambuco and the Women's Forum of  Pernambuco, occurring in 2 moments. The narratives reveal how these movements have articulated themselves since the beginning of the pandemic, rethinking political and mental health care strategies, incorporating ethnic-racial, sex-dissonant, and class perspectives. Thematic analysis of the field material, in light of decolonial and counter-colonial feminist knowledge, highlights the importance of these articulations for the anti-asylum struggle in Pernambuco. The study reflects on the role of feminist movements in the field of mental health and their contribution to addressing counter-reformist challenges. In summary, the narratives of activists highlight the complex intersection between feminism and anti-asylum activism, emphasizing the need to build networks of strengthening between these movements and academia, in pursuit of broader political and social transformations.

This dissertation seeks to weave reflections from practices of religious and political resistance that build an integrative-subversive and non-dichotomous relationship between sexual and gender dissidence and Christian religiosity. For this purpose, it starts with a literature review anchored in the contributions of feminist studies, Psychology and other social and human sciences, as well as, and above all, the political-religious performance of dissident sex-gender Christian groups and movements in the virtual scenario, in the light of netnographic inspiration. This work is oriented from an epistemological basis opposed to the matrix of colonial power, and thus, it is anchored in the critical perspective of anthropology by demand, which means that it takes the demands and issues raised by the movement itself as a starting point. The research points to the processes of resistance that these groups put forward both within the institutional Christian framework, in order to compete for space and manage to experience their faith as they are entitled to, and alongside progressive social movements, forming alliances that do not ignore the element of faith. Therefore, we seek to defend how the construction of a dissident Christian position strains both religious canons and the modern/colonial ideals of progress, announcing borderline knowledge and practices that (re)construct the religious experience and claim it beyond a great monolith. It is hoped, finally, that this work can announce clues that contribute to a critical, reflective and implicated perspective on the subject, as well as, and above all, to the processes of dissident sex-gender resistance

This research addressed the creative power of children, whether to assimilate knowledge from their sociocultural environment, develop new knowledge, resolve conflicts, manage their emotions, or understand emerging phenomena. Conceiving them as protagonists of the culture in which they are inserted, the study sought to investigate the understanding of six-year-old children about the COVID-19 pandemic based on their accounts, after the period of physical distancing. Organized into 6 small groups to form conversation circles with the researcher, 32 children, upon returning to school, were encouraged to recall their experiences and feelings during the period of social distancing and to talk about what they learned about the Coronavirus, its spread, and prevention procedures during that atypical period. The results indicate that, outside formal educational environments, they actively engaged in the context of the pandemic, made inferences about the effects of the Coronavirus on people, and highlighted the main prevention methods advocated by health organizations. Some cross-cutting elements, such as the influence of political/religious conservatism on the pandemic, also manifested in their speeches. Additionally, the specific characteristics of the geographical region in which they are located – a small city in the Agreste region of Pernambuco – circumscribed their experiences: "I used to play with my cousin, who always stays at my house when I wake up.", "But I never stopped going to church." Although the interval between returning to school and data collection (about 7 months) may have influenced the children's memories of their experiences during the peak of the pandemic period, their accounts represent experiences and learning experiences reworked by them and contribute to a more appropriate understanding of children and childhoods.

This essay aimed to comprehend narratives about the sexual health of cisgender lesbian women through their understanding of self-care, demands and necessities in sexual health and constructions of their therapeutic itineraries, topics that dialogued with notions of individual, social and programmatic vulnerability. It proposed discussing sexual health of lesbians, who have historically been made invisible because they deviate from the heterosexual norm, particularly in health field, in its policies, services and care. The study is based on a decolonial feminist, post-structuralist and constructionist theoretical reading to think about dissident sexualities, health, care and discourse and it was configured as a qualitative-based research, using narrative interviews for better comprehension of complexities brought in them. Six cisgender lesbian women, over 18 years old and residing in Recife were interviewed. The analysis of information produced was guided by thematic analysis due to the theoretical flexibility that describes the data set in rich details. Interviews produced biographical summaries and the analysis addressed aspects of individual and social vulnerabilities; mini-biographies were created focusing on narratives about programmatic vulnerability and therapeutic itineraries. To this end, subjects that stood out in the speeches and in the literature that provide theoretical basis for the study were discussed. As for conclusions, insufficient knowledge about STIs contributed to the increase in the individual vulnerability of these women, which could lead to underestimation of the risks of contracting STIs other than HIV. The existence of narratives of immunity in sex among women was identified, also leading them to expose themselves to risk situations. It is important that institutions responsible for health in the three spheres of government, in dialogue with areas in sexual rights field, carry out training programs in gender, sexualities and sexual education for health institutions and services, to rethink the health model itself and generalist forms of care.

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder characterized by distorted thinking, delusions, hallucinations, cognitive deficits and gross behavioral disturbances. In addition to these symptoms, the literature also describes important sensory-perceptual alterations such as impairments in basic visual perception with repercussions on face recognition. This research intends to investigate possible difficulties in face identity recognition in people with schizophrenia. For this, we created a facial identity recognition task (TRIF) that brings innovation to the manipulation of natural distractors (beard, makeup and mask). In this way,
for the construction of TRIF, initially, we need to form an image bank and for that, 12 volunteers were recruited, 06 women and 06 men. We also have the collaboration of the Laboratory of Cognitive Sciences and Perception (LACOP) of the Federal University of Paraíba under the coordination of Professor Dr. Nelson Torro Alves who gave us access to face images from the LACOP Facial Expression Database. After building the image bank, the construction of the TRIF then proceeded. TRIF is composed of 06 image presentation blocks, each block contains 06 identification sheets (03 female and 03 male). The study included 43 volunteers, men and women, aged between 25 and 55 years old, divided into two groups: a Control Group and a group of volunteers from Hospital Ulysses Pernambucano. Regarding the TRIF results, the number of correct answers in each block were added, confirming the impairment in face recognition in people diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Executive functions are fundamental skills for the learning process of theoretical and practical contents, for social life and mental health. They are complex cognitive processes, predominantly associated with the functioning of the prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex and subcortical areas. These processes act as a control or “supervisor” of behavior, enabling various complex actions such as maintaining the course of action in dynamic situations or even modifying this course of action according to changes and demands of the environment. This research aims to investigate symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress and difficulties in everyday EF (Executive Functions) tasks in students of technical courses during the return to face-to-face classes after a period of physical isolation from the COVID 19 pandemic. technical education students at the IFPE (Federal Institute of Pernambuco). First, the research volunteers answered a Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) and Inventory of Difficulties in Executive Functions, Regulation and Aversion to Postponement for adults - IFERA-II. Data were analyzed in two ways, a more holistic way with the total sample focusing on correlations between variables and a way in which we compare two groups. A group called Risk Group (GCR), characterized by students with high scores on the depression, anxiety and stress scale, and a Non-Risk Group (GSR), formed by students with low scores on the scale . In the holistic analysis, we identified moderate correlations between the variables depression, anxiety and stress with performance in the EF tasks of working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility, as well as between the sociodemographic characteristics of the sample, sleep quality and financial difficulties. Comparing the groups, we found that the GCR had more difficulty in the daily EF tasks of working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility than the GSR. These results support the collective construction of emotional health care actions and future
pedagogical actions at the institution.

How are the elements presented in the representational field of human embryo genetic editing structured? In which context do individuals tend to position themselves more favorably to the potential application of the technique in everyday circumstances? This work intended to answer these questions through the content analysis of social representation and its relationship with attitudes about human embryonic genetic editing among students of biological sciences, psychology and law. Methodologically, the research design has an explanatory content, analyzing quantitative analyzes on quantitative and qualitative data. As hypotheses, we systematized four axes: H1 - Being a religious practitioner interferes with the more or less favorable positioning of the subjects in relation to the object; H2 - Political orientation interferes with the subjects' attitude towards the object; H3 - Students of Law, Biological Sciences and Psychology represent conflicting objects of the bioethical field in different ways; and H4 - The purpose for which the human embryo genetic editing technique will be used makes the subject more or less favorable to its practice. The hypotheses of this work were confirmed, since we were able to see through the data the salience of these variables, sometimes they were present in the objectivation processes, sometimes involved in the anchoring systems, which are also linked to the attitudinal dimension of the technique. Proximity to the group affected by a disease or disability, or being a member of these groups, even changes the way these subjects build beliefs and position themselves in relation to the practice of genetic editing. This field of research is surrounded by controversies and divergences, starting with the ambiguous nature of the condition of the embryo. This status differs among social groups because there is no consensus on when human life begins, or when an embryo should be given the status of a person with rights.

Work is a marker in human development, rooted in social communications and occupying space in the establishment of group relationships and for understanding oneself in the world. Given the growth of informality in the country and the emergence of apps as an income guarantee solution in a crisis scenario, app workers appear as a relevant group for the discussion of the meanings of work in a society that is also organized through it. Understanding that work by application is interspersed with theories about the work from which it is based, the Theory of Social Representations offers an overview that helps to answer the following question: which social representations are mobilized in the daily work of workers by application? Thus, the objective of this work was to identify the representational field of the Social Representations of Work that circulate among delivery and/or transport application workers and to verify the arguments that justify the practices adopted by application workers in their daily work. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten workers per application, five drivers and five couriers, over 18 years old. The analysis of the interviews was carried out with the aid of the IRAMUTEQ software in which a Descending Hierarchical Classification (CHD) was carried out. The results of this research point out that work has the ability to confer dignity on the subject and position him in the social context, removing him from marginality and also has the condition of character builder. Workers associate the meaning of work with formal employment relationships and recognize the formal employment contract as an instrument to guarantee security in a labor relationship. It is understood that social representations about work are constructed in conjunction with other objects, so this research points to the need for further studies of Social
Representation Systems.

In this dissertation, we aim to analyze the discursive production in public documents published by the Brazilian government between 2010 and 2021 around the appearance of the Homeless Population as subjects of rights in the country's public health policies. We analyze the discursive production in public documents made available by the Brazilian government between 2010 and 2021 around the appearance of the Population in Street Situation as subjects of rights in public health and social assistance policies in the country. We started from public domain documents created and made available by the Ministry of Health: manual, folder, booklet, poster, leaflet and technical note. From them, we make visible the discourses produced by the State, which build discourses-practices about the rights of this population. In the analytical work, some problem-questions led us: how does this population access public health services? How does the discourse of race and poverty establish inferior subjects in the eugenics medical discourse in modernity? With a population of mostly black people, Pop Rua faces several challenges, as racism, based on the device of raciality, operates interdictions to public health policies, with access to equipment being one of the main difficulties. Hostile, unwelcoming environments prejudiced professional practices and violations of rights are discourse-practices raised and routinely repeated by the analyzed discursive productions. The urgency of profound structural changes is evident. Micropolitics, however, are the solutions most pointed out by discursive productions. Creation of care services aimed at pop street and health-social assistance interlocution through intersectoriality, to guarantee the realization of rights; it is also pointed out that no longer just as subjects abdicating rights from civilized society and on the margins of society - in which health policies considered little to think about -, pop street emerges as a population that fights for rights, organizing themselves collectively.

Based on the assumption that there are sensory-perceptual alterations in neuropsychiatric disorders, in both mild and severe states, this dissertation had as the main objective to evaluate the visual, auditory, and proprioceptive perception of volunteers attended at a Psychosocial Care Centre (CAPS) whose diagnoses included psychosis symptoms. For this purpose, the Multisensorial Assessment Battery under development by the Visual Perception Laboratory from the Federal University of Pernambuco was used. This battery is composed by three tests: the Pictorial Size Test; the Sound Appreciation Test; and the Hand Grip Force Test. Participants were volunteers in both, an Experimental Group (GECAPS), and a Control Group (GC) consisting of twelve people each. The GECAPS included patients from CAPS diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolarity, and the CG included invited healthy controls paired for sex and age to the experimental group. This research assessed the sensitivity of the Battery for assessment of the first perceived pictorial size, the levels of sound discomfort to sweeps composed of pure frequencies, and handgrip force in people with symptoms of psychosis as compared to a group of volunteers without any diagnosis of neuropsychiatric disorders. The results showed overall significant differences between the groups for all three tests (p < 0.001), corroborating the sensitivity of the battery to the intended evaluations of sensorial changes. We also compared the observed data with those published in a 2022 article by the laboratory with first episode psychosis. The results also showed significant differences in some sensory aspects. Our results suggests that the observed sensory-perceptual damage is aggravated by the duration and evolution of the disease.

The number of older people around the world has grown and in the face of changes in family arrangements and the insertion of women in the labor market, nursing homes have emerged as a care alternative. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality imposed challenges regarding the care for elderly people living in nursing homes. The present study aimed to understand the conceptions of nursing homes coordinators about care directed to elderly people residing in these institutions in times of pandemic and social distancing and sought to identify strategies adopted for care. The research was carried out with nine coordinators of nursing homes located in Pernambuco. For collection, a semi-structured interview was used, an identification questionnaire and thematic analysis was used in the light of the Network of Meanings theory (Red Sig). The study showed that the conceptions about the care provided to the elderly in nursing homes are understood in four dimensions: care as a feeling of love; performance of the professionals who promote it; the family as an agent of care; institution as a living organism. It was observed that the meanings attributed to social distancing are related to an increase in work overload; impacts on mental health, among others. The study allowed identifying various care actions implemented within the nursing homes during the pandemic period. It is concluded that the construction of COVID-19 prevention strategies proved to be effective, since few older people contracted the disease and there was a reduced number of deaths among residents. The reports of the coordinators showed the commitment of the institutions regarding the protection of the elderly and the commitment of the partnerships carried out. The participation of the State was, however, punctual. It is reflected that future studies may investigate the impacts of the pandemic on the elderly living in nursing homes, also contemplating other actors involved in the different levels of care.

The psychic suffering received in the Unified Health System (SUS) through the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS) were the first pillars of debate in this dissertation. To this end, psychiatry was also placed as a scientific area with hegemony in the discussion and understanding of what psychic suffering would be, as well as the historical problem of pathologizing done by this field of knowledge. Thus, the work sought to understand how psychiatry built its voices on suffering, here opening doors to dialogue through the choices of psychiatric productions from Pernambuco in the Graduate Program in Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Posneuro) at UFPE. Therefore, the general objective was to analyze from the counter-colonial position the concepts of psychic suffering in dissertations and theses of Posneuro da UFPE, taking as reference a year before and a year after the implementation of RAPS. Of these, we sought mainly their concepts of psychic suffering. However, a theoretical, methodological and political support proved to be imperative and the position in the counter-colonial proved to be the coherent support to debate psychic suffering through other ways than pathologization and medicalization. A thesis and two dissertations from the area of concentration of psychiatry at Posneuro were chosen. The use of document analysis and bibliometrics as methodologies was necessary, but both are in line with the counter-colonial, not maintaining rigid methodologies but with fluid movements and dialoguing with traditional methodological approaches in the perspective of creation and not reproduction. Among the results, it was found the partial absence of the concepts of psychic suffering; on the other hand, psychiatric productions had enough scenarios and arguments to weave in a counter-colonial way as they tried to, which, in turn, endorse an imperative need to situate suffering not exclusively in the 'mental', but within structures, conjunctures, inequalities and Brazilian and Pernambuco stories

This research aims to problematize the journalistic narratives conveyed in the Pernambuco media about the protection of young people through culture in the Peixinhos neighborhood in Olinda. To reach our objective, we took as material the journalistic media of the state of Pernambuco, organized in two axes of analysis: narratives of violence and resistance, understood in what we are calling cultural device as a protection factor for children and youth in the neighborhood. This is a post-structuralist research inspired by the contributions of Michel Foucault and authors who intersect gender, masculinities and race, such as Sueli Carneiro, Silvio Almeida, bell hooks, Walter Benjamin and others. The analysis of the material constructed for this research followed the guidelines of Foucault's discourse analysis, understood and inspired by the author's archaeological and genealogical methods, concerned with the visibility and problematization of discursive continuities and discontinuities in the construction of certain objects, considering discursive and non-discursive practices. constructed discourses. We propose an analytical exercise that unites the theoretical and methodological efforts of different authors, for what we name in this study of genealogy of narratives about the cultural device in Peixinhos. The results of this study contribute to thinking of the neighborhood as a cultural device inherent to aspects of youth protection in the territory. This allows us to problematize naturalized discourses on the subject, highlighting race and gender as indispensable to the organization of/in the face of violence in the neighborhood. Finally, we highlight cultural and territorial resistance as a strong ally in protecting children and young people against homicidal violence in Peixinhos, based on the analysis of the axes that appear in the documents highlighted by the Culture of Peace enunciations and the issues of Territory, identity and belonging . In this way, this study contributes to fostering discussions that involve cultural and territorial resistance as preventive measures against violence and stresses its effective incorporation in public policies for the protection of young people and children.

The present text is the result of a research that had as its general objective to analyze the dynamics of parliamentary action of trans women and travesti who act in mandates for deputy in Brazil, and as specific objectives: to investigate the political agenda of the current legislative mandates in which trans women and travesti act; evaluate challenges and possibilities in the legislative performance of trans women and travesti; and understand how the categories of gender and race are present in the political activities of these deputies. The deputies chosen for the study were Érica Malunguinho and Robeyoncé Lima, from a collective mandate called Juntas. To conduct the research, we used a varied methodological design, which included a bibliographical review on the subject, conducting a semi-structured interview, and gathering institutional documents produced in each of the two mandates. The results showed that the deputies sought to share perspectives in their mandates, either through a plural team coordinated by Érica Malunginho, or by multiplying the voices and the possibility of building a new political project through the collective mandate, as in the case of Robeyoncé, with the Juntas. In addition, we observed that the candidacies of both were little driven by the party and had little funding in relation to cis and white candidates from higher classes, from different parties. As for the exercise of the mandate, it was possible to conclude that, in general, they still have difficult insertion and respect within the Assemblies, either due to episodes of transphobia, or because their right to speak is denied. In addition, the conviction in the restitution of possession and in a political project that is pedagogical represents what the mandates of Robeyoncé Lima and Érica Malunguinho bring to their respective legislative assemblies.

This thesis is a prison ethnography, based on the following question: How can the experiences of women who have survived imprisonment disrupt the violent and dehumanizing circuits of these institutions? To this end, the main site investigated here was a Women's Public Prison, located in the Pernambuco hinterland. The institution, even after undergoing a recent renovation, is still a makeshift punitive structure, which far from resembling the great maximum security prison fortresses, bears the marks of precariousness of a space that looks more like a tenement prison, a tenement-prison, as Santos (2018) calls it. Although this is the main site for collecting the data highlighted here, this research is also based on the understanding that the prison is a space produced from a porous relationship, which reveals the idea of total isolation between the world inside and the world outside, because the prison is also in impoverished communities, in the control procedures over territories of circulation and black recreation, in the establishment of police imprisonment targets based on the constitution of punishable individuals. It is in the co-optation of that childhood that has to learn certain rules of the game from an early age, in the womb of a baby about to be born on the other side of the fence and also in the constitution of the stories of so many women I came across during different moments of my incursions into this field. At the confluence of two important research techniques (life history and participant observation), during 2015, 2017 and 2021, I was able to take a closer look at the scripts that organized the lives of four women: Socorro, Fátima, Maria and Carolina. Not all of them were positioned there as "prisoners", but they all had incarceration as a circuit that amplified their ways of suffering. Black or brown, poor, workers, mothers or daughters, young and old, dreamers, women who, for the most part, killed the idle time of the lockup in order to continue living afterwards. Not all of them escaped. In this play that articulates the end of the world and its postponement, prison survival has proved to be an important mechanism for preserving life during the passage through confinement, as it intersects with a policy of reconstruction that is anchored in the first realization that it is necessary to stay alive. There are many tactics involved in the production of this category, which, based on an ethic of stubborn persistence and continuity, enables individuals and communities to resist, even when all forces call for the opposite, with life being what makes it possible to avenge death through itself.

Aging has been discussed worldwide in recent decades due to changes in the life expectancy of people aged 60 and over. In Brazil, some laws have been implemented to promote and guarantee the rights of this population. Nursing home (Long-Stay Institution for the Elderly - ILPI) appears as a viable equipment to guarantee the rights of this population. However, this institution has been questioned as for its origin, structure, and purpose, sometimes controversial, which would impose a control over residents to the point of their losing autonomy, which would go against public policies advocating this primordial factor for an active aging. Therefore, the question is: what is the relationship between the meanings of autonomy of institutionalized elderly people and the host context in which they live? The general objective of the research is to investigate the meanings of autonomy for elderly people residing in an ILPI and to indicate how these meanings relate to the environment in which they live and have an impact on their aging processes. A non-profit private institution in the Agreste Central region of Pernambuco was selected, and eight elderly people participated in the qualitative research, using semi-structured interviews as a collection procedure focusing on their conceptions of autonomy. To reach the objective of the work, we opted for the microgenetic analysis proposed by the theoretical perspective of the Net of Meanings. The results suggest a series of factors linked to the perception by an elderly person on their autonomy within the ILPI. They are: decision to enter the institution; search for possible compensation for loss of autonomy; social credibility as being an autonomous person; development of socio-affective bonds among the members of the ILPI; and values linked to actions and decisions that directly affect the concept of autonomy of these residents. Even with the difficulties encountered in carrying out the research due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19, it was possible to reflect on the implications of these factors in the process of autonomy of these residents. The introductory character of these discussions on the subject and the need for a greater depth into this investigation in other institutions with different contexts and social reasons are herein recognized.

This dissertation analyzed care updates in Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) during different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis was based on the report of women professionals who made up the minimum team of the referred service in four cities in the state of Pernambuco. The study starts from a decolonial and poststructuralist feminist epistemological orientation. In line with the rules of distancing, data were produced in an online format. First, an individual meeting took place and a socio-labor questionnaire was applied. Then, three collective workshops were held. In all workshops, artistic resources based on the methods of Teatro do Oprimido and Dançaterapia were used. For the analysis, the methodological perspectives of Cartography and Thematic Analysis were used. The collective meetings raised debates based on the meanings constructed in the relationships with/between the interlocutors. Thus, data discussions were grouped into two axes. The first axis explained how the workshops took place and showed how artistic resources became powerful tools so that care updates, in the digital field, could happen. The second axis appreciated how the different phases of the pandemic were decisive for the functioning of CAPS and for the production of care. In addition, it was possible to observe a series of weaknesses present in the services, which were intensified with the pandemic. In the second axis, it was also discussed how the updates of care in the CAPS were crossed by issues of territory, gender, class and race. It was concluded that for the effectiveness of the production of mental health care, in this context of emergency and crisis, an incessant negotiation between the new possibilities of acting and the practices already in force was necessary. This continuous negotiation would be based on the ethical-political co-responsibility of each professional.

Memory is one of the cognitive skills that can be affected by aging. Throughout the development, there may occur alterations in the reduction of information processing speed, affecting the cognitive development, in special the memory. The present study has the goal to understand the different meanings assigned to memory by elderly people. For such, it was chosen for the theoretical support of the Network of Meanings (RedSig). The research was executed in the Buenos Aires city, Pernambuco, and it had the participation of 8 elderly, from both sex and ages between 67 and 101 years. The local for data collecting was agreed with each participant, taking into consideration its availability and the security measures. The instruments utilized were a sociodemographic survey and a semistructured interview. The data was analyzed through the Content Thematic Analysis that aroused 6 thematic categories around the focus in memory. It was observed that the meanings presented are circumscribed by questions in subjective order and that the importance of the memory emerges tied up to its function while cognitive capacity. However, it is highlighted that it can ensure the maintenance and establishment of social relations. Starting from a singular construction, the memory is crossed by group processes, social and different contexts, and it assumes a social recognition role. The use of new digital technologies appears harmful when they take over processes considered as functions of the memory. One question that stands out are the complaints about memories and the way in which the elderly people organize themselves, establishing strategies and assigning meanings. Although they are individual expressions, the constructions of meanings about memory are crossed by questions from human development, through experiences and sharing histories. In other words, by social and cultural elements and by contexts in which they are immersed

This research aims to analyze the production of meanings about online psychological care to LGBT people in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, based on narratives made with psychology professionals. While we were carrying out a review of the scientific literature to approach the issue of mental health and sexual and gender dissidence, the world was facing the uncertainty consequences of a pandemic. In this sense, implications were observed for the mental health of the population in general and, even more, of historically vulnerable populations, such as the LGBT. There was also an increase in the use of Information and Communication Technologies to offer psychological care services that, according to preliminary research, need to be studied more deeply. In this way, we define our objectives at the interface between this historical controversy. We are based on a qualitative theoretical- methodological orientation in social psychology, grounded on (post)constructionism and intersectional feminist readings, following principles and strategies to analyze discursive practices and production of meanings. We conducted narrative interviews with eight psychology professionals, resulting in the co-production of texts and discursive lines. The creation/maintenance of psychological care networks was part of our field-theme and, therefore, all psychologists should be facilitating online groups for LGBT people. From the displacements produced by the dialogues, we elaborated as axes of analysis: (1) the production of meanings about the mental health of the LGBT population in times of pandemic; (2) ongoing demands and disordered scenarios: the expansion of online services and (3) psychological care in a network: online groups as a category of analysis. We organize the narratives in order to highlight “lines, curves and shadows”, in an attempt to, respectively, explore common aspects, connections; distinct paths, deviations and unsaid, spaces of tension. Hoping to contribute to other research possibilities, we make considerations about our achievements and limitations.

The hospital institution exercises an important place in mental health care. Historically, it was present in different ways (psychiatric hospital/general hospital) and with different participation in the services offered in the mental health network. These characteristics provided a space for meanings to be constructed and consolidated in relation to their role in care. This research aimed to analyze the meanings of hospital care in mental health care for undergraduate psychology students, assuming that it is pertinent to understand how these individuals realize the subject as they will soon be in the job market as professionals. Fifty-one students regularly enrolled in undergraduate courses in Psychology in the city of Recife/PE participated in the research, answering an online questionnaire about the subject. The concept of device transmitted by Foucault and the understanding of discourse as a practice interlaced with power and social relations guided the discussion of the material, which the treatment and analysis were supported by the Content Analysis proposed by Bardin. It was identified that the institution is associated with a dispute with anti-asylum disciplines and that it cannot be a paradigm. It was identified that the hospital is in dispute in the discursive field, with references to aspects associated with the anti-asylum struggle and indications of content that can be associated with the asylum paradigm. We understand that the Psychiatric Counter-Reform, in progress in Brazil, may be supporting this disputed field. The participation of psychology in mental health care from the hospital also appears in tension. Sometimes this knowledge is presented as a guardian of humanized processes with the population, as welcoming or listening. Sometimes the role of psychologists seems reduced to the classic therapeutic setting of clinical psychology. The teaching in psychology has the task of seeking to move away from teaching aligned with the asylum paradigm, so that the transformations designated by the Psychiatric Reform Movement can capacitate professionals in developing to work in the mental health care network. It is recommended that future research deepens knowledge about professional practices around mental health in the hospital environment. Investigations about hospital patients conceptions with health professionals will also be welcome.

The study aimed to understand the experiences of elderly homosexuals throughout their lives, and how these have had consequences on their perception and/or experience of aging. Thus, using the principles of a qualitative research with a narrative character, I conducted in-depth interviews with a biographical focus with three homosexual men between fifty-six and sixty-six years old. From the double-hermeneutics, I sought to reveal the meanings that the participants built from their own actions and experiences, marking and comparing with the meaning that I, armed with my theoretical-methodological framework, constructed from the actions, experiences and interpretations of my interlocutors. Thus, from these narratives, I realized that since childhood they had to face the stigmas directed to their sexuality and friendship, since that time, it has been initially configured as a support network and throughout their lives, as a new possibility of relating and as encouragement in the face of the fear of loneliness in old age. Another question raised by them was how they perceive aging as something that is yet to come, and not as now. In this way, they claim that they are “living today, as long as possible”.

The rezadeiras are women who carry a little-knowns knowledge nowadays. They are ancestral knowledge and practices carried out by a defined, racialized gender, with a demarcated social class and which in this thesis had as its locus of enunciation from the South of the world to the interior of Pernambuco, specifically, in the municipality of Arcoverde – PE. The thesis aimed to investigate how the healing practices of women praying in the Pernambuco hinterland are constituted in the composition of their experiencies as guardian women of a traditional knowledge directed to health care. It articulates the discussion of epistemologies that star from the critique of the monoculture of Science and that propose a debate capable of dialoguing with the diversity of knoledge in the world, namely, Border Epistemology, Southern Epistemologies and decolonial and black feminisms. Its theoretical-methodological basis is the narrative research based on authors such as Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein (2009), Jean Clandinin and Michael Connelly (2015), Sandra Jovchlovitch and Marton Bauer (2015), and Catherine Reissman (2008). The Observation of daily life, the field diary and the narrative interview were used as research instruments. Is adopted the notion of field-theme to approach the relationship that the researcher stablishes with the subject in her personal experience, in her literature review and during her contact with the rezadeiras in the Encontros de Saberes da Caatinga in Exu – PE, and with the rezadeiras, in the municipality of Arcoverde – PE. From the analysis of the narratives co- produced together with the mourners, it is understood that thay have an important role in the health care of diferent parts of society that have an affinity with their healing pratices. It is concluded that the healing practices narrated by the prayer women in the municipality of Arcoverde – PE, constitute an ancestral, dynamic and plural nowledge and practices per si.

This thesis aimed to analyze the narratives about hope and hopeless among young people from institutionalization who live in Recife-PE. More specifically, it also sought to understand if and how narratives about hope are related to the fulfillment of socio-protective and socio-educational measures and/or marked by inequalities of race, class, gender and sexuality, in addition to reflecting on whether and how the so-called psychoanalytic method- countercolonial-feminist could contribute to the (re)construction of narratives about (dis)hope among such young people. In general, there are few studies on hope, both in Psychoanalysis and Psychology. Hope is constituted by the psychoanalytic notion of the principle of hope, which performs a function of organizing psychic life, and the philosophical notion of hope as an affectation intertwined with fear, which we call “medança?”. It has a political, social and subjective support function and follows its course of development as long as it is being built with facilitating and shady environments. Interviews were carried out based on the use of images and the production of a comic book, totaling two meetings with each of the six interlocutors. Through the analysis of narratives, we located the most collective and the most singular points of the interviews, although interdependent. The results showed that the narratives most marked by hopelessness were linked to the time of compliance with the measures in the institutions, the relationships with the families of origin, traumas and guilt engendered by inequalities of race, class, gender and sexuality. The narratives more linked to hope involved the presence of a person considered savior, the professionalization and construction of a new family. The study demonstrated the importance of democratizing access to psychoanalytic listening constituted by a counter-colonial and feminist discussion, in addition to the necessary struggle to guarantee youth rights in socio-protective and socio-educational institutions.

The Covid19 pandemic caused impacts and changes in all spheres of society, including work. Faced with the quarantines in the country, the alternative for many companies was to implement the home office. Considering the impacts of this modality of work incorporated in the lives of workers, the general objective of this research was to analyze the social representations built on working from home in the context of the Covid19 pandemic. As a theoretical contribution, the Theory of Social Representations was used. A Free Word Association questionnaire was applied to 97 participants and 10 semi-structured interviews. Data from the questionnaire were analyzed using the Iramuteq software, through prototypical analysis and descending hierarchical classification, and the interviews were analyzed using the content analysis technique. The results showed that work appears centrally related to responsibility and personal fulfillment, the fulfillment of a mission for the other. The context of the pandemic added to the work activity feelings of uncertainty, adaptation, fatigue, insecurity, anxiety and gratitude for continuing to work in the face of the crisis. Home office work represented flexibility, responsibility and discipline, leading the subjects to feelings of comfort and tiredness in the face of difficulties in reconciling work with household chores, caring for children. The subjects highlighted autonomy as freedom and responsibility. The expectations of the post-pandemic period represent, even in the face of uncertainties about the future, a trend towards a new lifestyle and work, with a future hybrid work. The importance of the analysis of the social context in the constitution of the structures of the social representations of the analyzed objects and the articulations about the different possible levels of analysis, from the individual to the societal, is highlighted. The need for attention to the worker's quality of life is highlighted, ensuring greater distance between work and other spheres of social life.

From an articulation between the Theory of Social Representations and Critical Discourse Analysis - in addition to other contributions - the work analyzed the psychosocial processes involved in the representational-discursive construction about the extrapsychoanalytic universe, by a Brazilian Lacanian psychoanalytic institution. Taking materials published between 2004 and 2016 by one of its vehicles of dissemination, the documentary research focused on four instances of the extrapsychoanalytic, thus hierarchized: the “social”; the “science"; the “university” and; the “psy-world”. Reconstituting the history of Freudian psychoanalysis and its further developments by the Lacanian movement, the research described/interpreted how and why each of these social objects were constructed representationally and discursively, with a view to producing a radical estrangement between psychoanalysis and the extrapsychoanalytic, necessary strategic condition for the alleged immunity to social criticism and, at the same time, for its social reproduction, especially at the university and in undergraduate psychology courses. With texts aimed at an expanded psychoanalytic audience - to include university professors and psychology students - the social representations discursively conveyed were read not only as an instrument for disseminating a possible reading of the world, but as means of producing subjectivities in the service of political interests of a certain Lacanian psychoanalytic community. In this sense, the investigation expanded the original approach of psychoanalysis by social psychology, as carried out by Serge Moscovici in his thesis Psychoanalysis, its image and its public, taking it not as a representational object, but as a source of representations of social alterity, necessarily linked to processes of power and ideology. In the end, having explained the importance of taking psychoanalysis as a social object, the research proposed to enrich a little explored field of studies, characterized as a “social psychology of psychoanalysis” or, more specifically, a “psycho-sociology of psychoanalytic knowledge”.

Cancer is one of the diseases that most affects people around the world. With high incidence rates, it becomes necessary to bring up the topic for discussion. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common among men and women, and it can be treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, including the temporary or permanent use of the colostomy bag. In order to understand the meanings about the body in people who use the colostomy bag due to colorectal cancer, we conducted interviews with 5 people who use it to understand the meanings they attribute to the body, illness and the use of the colostomy bag, considering their contexts class and gender specific. Thematic analysis (BARDIN, 2011) was used, supported by discursive theories, especially in the concepts of truth games and language games (FOUCAULT, 1990; WITTGENSTEIN, 1984). The results indicate that people who use a colostomy bag go through adaptive processes and the rediscovery of their bodies, in this process they encounter difficulties but also forms of resistance and to continue living. Events related to class and gender were evidenced, especially with regard to sexuality, reproductive rights and the impact of class differences on the adaptive process.

The role of psychology in monitoring child victims of sexual abuse in Reference Center for Specialized Social Assistance (Creas in Portuguese acronym) involves teamwork and adopts specific characteristics, which differ from the psychology practice in private office setting, a consolidated model since profession regulation in the country. Psychology's classic approach to this subject involves a self-employed psychotherapist, whose primary focus is on the child victims' intrapsychic aspects. With the establishment of the national social welfare policy, psychology professionals began to work on cases of child sexual abuse that were brought to Creas, demanding a different approach. The research aimed to understand the practices carried out by psychologists at Creas in two municipalities in the Metropolitan Region of Recife in regard to child sexual abuse. This qualitative research was carried out by six psychologists using semi-structured interviews. The Phenomenological Method of Research in Psychology has guided the data construction and analysis. The understanding of the general meaning of each psychologist about their own experience made it possible to identify the overall structure of the experience, which we refer to as articulated practice. The psychological practice facing cases of child sexual abuse in Creas is articulated with multiple social actors - family, team, network. It is featured by contextualized and intersectoral interventions, which have been contributing to the social welfare support for both the child and the family. The professionals point out the weaknesses in policy management, which involves everything from resource allocation to political-institutional orientation, including the poor working conditions. We did not identify any moves by the professionals towards a deeper understanding of this reality and/or actions to change it, even when faced with the challenges found in the service.