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Bullying consists of a set of intentional and repeated violent attitudes by one or more aggressors against their victims. It is normally practiced in schools by people of both genders to intentionally harm a person or a group of persons who in the aggressors' opinion are weak people and do not "fit" in the milieu in which they are inserted. Bullying has been a concern in contemporary society due to the high number of cases producing horrible scenes in school. The victims of bullying may develop different psychic or physical diseases due to violence, which may impair school performance through low concentration, lack of interest in studies, learning difficulties, causing exclusion, school truancy or quittance due to the student's fixation that the school is a place of torture and segregation. School administration should acknowledge what happens to the students and pinpoints the factors that interfere in learning. In fact, bullying is a determinant with regard to decrease in school performance. Violence is a problem within the conviviality of students in the school and it may go beyond its boundaries. Consequently, it must be perceived and attacked systematically. Further, parents have an important role in its solution. The paper deals with bullying within the school and its interference in the learning process, coupled to the family's role for the solution of the problem. El Bullying - que en español también puede ser conocido como acoso - es una palabra de origen inglesa que refiere un conjunto de actitudes violentas de carácter intencional y repetitivo, realizado por uno o más agresores, contra sus víctimas, siendo una práctica encontrada en el entorno escolar, la cual es realizada tanto por chicos como por chicas, con la finalidad de agredir intencionalmente una persona o un grupo de personas, considerado por los agresores, como personas débiles y que "desentonan" del medio donde están inseridas. La preocupación con el bulling es creciente en la sociedad contemporánea, una vez que se observa la cantidad de casos que generan verdaderas barbaries en el entorno escolar. Las víctimas del bulling, debido a la violencia sufrida, podrán desarrollar distintas enfermedades psíquicas y/o físicas, las cuales pueden comprometer el desarrollo escolar a causa de la disminución de concentración, desinterés gradual por los estudios, dificultad de aprendizaje, lo que puede llevar a la exclusión, faltas y evasión escolar, una vez que el alumno victima toma la escuela como un local de sufrimiento, de segregación. La escuela, además de conocer como ocurre el proceso de aprendizaje, debe percibir aquello que ocurre con sus alumnos, reconociendo los factores que interfieren el aprendizaje de estos, siendo el bulling un hecho determinante en lo que se refiere a la disminución del rendimiento escolar. Siendo así, esa violencia, se muestra como un problema para la convivencia de los alumnos en la escuela que puede, incluso, traspasar sus fronteras, debiendo, por ello, ser observada y combatida de forma sistemática. Además, no basta que esa práctica sea conocida y combatida en la escuela para que se logre su disminución, ya que los padres poseen un papel importante en la solución de ese problema. De esta manera, se busca analizar el fenómeno Bulling en el entorno escolar, y su interferencia en los procesos de aprendizaje y el papel de la familia en la disolución del conflicto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on searching some of the strategies used in knowledge production based on the challenges and opportunities created by the Actor-Network Theory (ART) in the area of psychology research. As a starter, we have used a survey conducted by us, in which we cast a special look at the field of social projects such as the action territories that render materiality to the so-called Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Two aspects have proved to be quite rich: the idea of the Promising Misunderstanding (DESPRET, 1999) and the Mapping Controversies (Latour, 2005). We have concluded that the methodological an ontological power of these concepts that, on one hand, multiply voices and versions and on the other hand recognize provisionality, partiality and incompleteness of any updated diagnosis, it also compromises the researcher with what he/she "brings to exisencet" in the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss some questions worked in the end-of-course monograph "Eu sou uma obra de arte, o museu é um mundo", which involved Helio Oiticica artistic proposal and the aproach of his work with an alternative way of thinking psychology: Actor-Network Theory (ANT). So we have a work which unites psychology and artes and discuss practices in psychology. Thus to support this discussion we work making a mess in the way of think and do psychology with the aport of ANT's authors dialoguing with Helio Oiticica. This discussion includes a lot of actors and compose a politic proposal different of dominating logic in psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the fundamentals and principles of classical phenomenology as a methodological approach for the study of cultural phenomena. This research is inscribed in the realm of qualitative research in psychology, therefore in the field of psychology of culture. However, in considering the general area of phenomenological studies in psychology, regular criticism of classical phenomenology is observed, questioning some methodological assumptions adopted by Husserl, referring primarily to the works published during his lifetime. Based on contemporary authors dedicated to the study of Husserl's later works and unpublished manuscripts, the debate around these criticisms is updated to innovate reflections on the empirical application of his phenomenology. As conclusion, some equivalences between phenomenological archeology of culture and genetic phenomenology confers the first methodological guidelines for the study of cultural phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past decades, many studies have pointed to the growing process of the ageing population. In Brazil, there is a prediction that by 2020 our country will have the sixth largest elderly population in the world. In several Brazilian cities, the number of inhabitants over 60 reaches significant levels. Given this phenomenon, several challenges exist for public policies, society and the university in the production of knowledge and new practices for intervention with this demand. Thus, this paper reports the experience of two group activities developed with the group "Ageing Processes and Subjectivity" at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Campus of Assis, coordinated by a faculty member and composed of twelve undergraduate apprentices in Psychology. The experience seeks to provide Psychology apprentices a training that will enable them to articulate the knowledge production with the construction of new strategies for professional work with the ageing population. Group activities are developed with the elderly, either institutionalized or not, and aim to promote intervention strategies that may produce the expansion of the subjectivity of the elderly, in order to combat the social isolation that many are submitted and also to promote (re)significations of the ageing process. To achieve this end, it is offered two different weekly activities, each one hour and a half long. One of them is the "Psychology Workshops with Senior nursing home residents", which includes the participation of about 30 individuals from two nursing homes in Assis (SP). In these workshops we develop sense and perception and activities of the expansion of mobility along with meetings that seek to foster memories and life stories of nursing home residents and activities that promote sociability among them, both within the campus and in the spaces of the city. The other group, "Encounters with the Third Age", is part of a project called University Opened to the Third Age (UnATI) of UNESP, Assis, which has about 50 participants aged over 60 years, mostly women. In this group, various topics related to ageing are discussed and its impact on the construction of subjectivity, such as gender, family, feelings and senses of the body and other processes. Our work with institutionalized old people, together with the academic purpose of creating knowledge while acting together with the external community, has led to the development of new tools of action in psychology beyond the traditional medical model. Moreover, these group experiences have also been seen as a strategic place in order to question the logic of invalidating the ageing person perceived on the social scene as well as among the elderly themselves. We observed that, when stimulated, they rediscover their capacity to reflect, criticize and ponder on various subjects, and may produce subjective processes more potentiated in their contact with others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contributions that a psychoanalytic perspective might bring to understand the condition of foreignness. To achieve this we interviewed a group of students linked to the higher education programs from countries whose official language is Portuguese. The analysis revealed that foreignness can be experienced by the subject as a conflict inherent to its nature: the helplessness facing everything that is unfamiliar may be reinforced in case of the contradiction of the "same" language spoken. The subjects referred to certain conditions and experiences of foreignness that may hinder the acceptance and identification with the new culture: the reasons for the choice of Brazil, the arrival, integration, school partnership, affective and sexual relationships, the perception of Brazilians and the difficulties encountered. From this emerges a vulnerability of the psychic sphere that reveals the deconstructive potential realized only when it occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to identify and analyze prevalent diagnosis of teachers' health problems, especially those concerning the mental health. The data are acquired of federal university research in expansion-internalization process, which analyzed the impact of the multiple demands of this process at work, related to health and subjectivity. The methodological instrument was composed of: semi-structured interviews with teachers of different areas, campuses and academic units; analysis of documents and data on the expansion; systematization of data on nonattendance due to health problems collected in consultation with the books of medical committee of the institution. We place in order the presentation of such records. On the other hand, we pointed out, to develop the scope limit of the article, qualitative aspects of the disease process and/or suffering with intersections between identified diagnoses and analysis of interviews. We conclude that sickness and suffering involve affective, ethical and political dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers of recent history use different information sources to rebuild the past. Through oral history methodology, they can even produce the documents they will analyze. This paper presents three studies in which the authors applied the oral history methodology to three different subjects: 1) the acknowledgement of one Brazilian psychologist's importance, 2) the perception of the work accomplished by employees in childhood education institutions and 3) the reframing of a Holocaust survivor's experience by his descendants. Focusing on people in their own social and cultural contexts, each work produced a historical writing that valorizes different aspects of culture and interpersonal relationships and recognizes that each person is the subject of a historical process. These studies point to the capability of the oral history methodology to valorize the memory of the interviewed people and also as a way to create documents that may help to build the present and future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews the literature on "Feeding Behavior and Food Habit", with the aim of addressing these concepts is presented in a didactic way. Survey of scientific papers, theses, dissertations and books that comprised the theoretical body was made. Were used, the electronic databases of SciELO Brazil - Scientific Electronic Library Online, the CAPES Portal and the Virtual Health Library (and Portuguese and English), as well as search for books and journals. The descriptors used were eating patterns, eating habits and feeding behavior. Because it is so interconnected and complementary concepts, the understanding of the two meanings and their differences is key to success in all types of treatments, interventions and preventive actions related to individuals (patients). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cannabis sativa is known a long time in both China and India. It is believed that it was brought to Brazil by slaves using a term coined by Angolans (marijuana). This plant was smoked at the beginning only the lower social classes, however when he learned of the "few" effects it causes, spread to all classes being the main target teenagers. The drug intake as much as smoked ingested can result in momentary feelings of relaxation, but it can also be a poisoning if used very frequently, however the intake for some sick would be required, since marijuana is also responsible for some therapeutic effects like some pain relief, stimulation of feeding and especially the will to live she unleashes those "users". The aim of the paper is to confront the psychoactive effects with therapeutic effects in a way that shows readers that marijuana even causing very bad when used frequently and for recreation, can aid in the treatment of some patients if used correctly and medicinal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The psychoanalyst's work at the Health Institution is done by articulating the clinic with the theory. It is the psychoanalyst's responsibility the transmission of knowledge that is built there, since the psychoanalyst is interested in a theory of clinical practice, especially because that clinic occurs at the institution, and it produces consequences in both: clinic and institution. This paper presents and discusses the notion of insertion of the analyst in the health team as a process, not as a fact. We assume that to enter in a team in a health institution is not the same as to be inserted in it. We define insertion as a construction process of the place where the psychoanalyst can operate, reminding that this place is not given beforehand. It is the continued formation that allows him to support such construction, by articulating his discourse with other different discourses at the different ethical references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper presents the relationships between beliefs, specifically religious ones, and the Peirce's theory of interpretants. It is assumed that religious belief emphasizes the emotional aspect of faithful, preventing criticism and change of habit. According to the author, the nature of cognition is contrary to the determination of this kind of belief since it is based on the method and fallibility of hypotheses. It is not enough for the method to deduce its consequences but seeks the inductive verification of their results in the long run and through the community of beings who thinks through signs. The problem of religious belief is the acceptance of a transcendent world and intuition which guides behavior. The vague idea of God is not submitted to scientific hypotheses but, engendered by religious systems, it creates signs whose emotional appeal is evident, redirecting it to its own target principles. Therefore, is repeats the success achieved in the past by dogmas, which were effective to appease the anguish of the believer and reproduce order. Knowledge should not have any boundaries because it is grounded on the method and cognition of reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in the use of drugs and their subjective effects are an epidemic problem for public health. This paper presents the results of a qualitative study on the subjective condition of eight young addicts that have sought help in rehabilitation clinics. The methodology of interpretive analysis of data collected from the interviews used the psychoanalytic theory. The precariousness of primordial relationships resulted in a construction of subjectivity marked by abandonment and helplessness. The understanding of the subject condition and his relation with the object drug reveals a psychic pain that meets, in the anesthesia offered by the drug, a coping strategy. It was found that the intensity of the early experiences in life, and not psychic elaborated, meet, as a form of discharge, the path of the act. The observed psychic fragility reaffirmed the necessity for an expansion of strategies of dealing with drug addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotions are characterized by a set of integrated responses that involve physiological and motor changes (that prepare the individual to act and feelings associated to internal experiences (allowing an situational evaluation). The emotional expressions are crucial to development and regulation of interpersonal relationships. Knowing how to deal with personal emotions and with others has become an important requirement in the relationships of the individual with the organization. Management of emotions has consequences in relationships among work pairs and in assistance to clients. Everyday work situations, organizational changes and clients and colleagues features involve emotions that need to be regulated. Emotional regulation can be defined as a controlled or automatic attempt in dealing with emotions showing how and why they will be felt and expressed. During the last years, public sector has been submitted to changes in its structure and dynamics that have required emotional management from public workers, demanding empirical studies aiming a better understanding of this reality. The quantitative study showed in this paper analyzed the relationships among emotions, emotional regulations strategies and socio-demographic variables of public workers in southern Brazil. Data were obtained using a questionnaire with examples of hypothetic everyday situations in the work. Participants were asked to choose emotional expressions associated to these situations and strategies of emotional regulation that could be used. The sample was formed by 400. Results indicated that in everyday negative situations the prevalent emotions were associated to anger and the less prevalent were associated to fear. The emotional regulation strategies used to deal with situations were those of deep action. The results also showed the differences in emotional regulation regarding gender, activity level in the public organization and work regimen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The School Psychology Emergency Practices differs from others School Psychology practices, is more than type of psychology service and should have more institutional visibility. This paper reflects on these references from both the practice of the author and the currently literature in school psychology. To this purpose, we use as reference the concept of Extended Clinic and its relation with Psychology Emergency Service area. We discuss the opportunity of the school psychologist has, among other things, to be able to listen and to welcome spontaneously anyone in the school community seeking for support in case of emergency. In so doing, the author reflects on the condition of psychological emergency service as service and as a type of treatment at school, and school psychology as an area of expertise inserted in this complex environment different of views and perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Law of Family Living is the current law on adoption in the country. It creates an obligation of previous qualification to adopt and considers necessary to prepare adoptive parents in psychosocial and legal ways. This paper reflects, from an experience of support group to prospective adoptive parents, about the possibility of support group works as a tool to conflict prevention between parents and the child to be adopted. We can conclude, that to welcome a child, parents need understand their own filiations, inheritances and desires and the support group can be a form of awareness and preparedness of the adoptive parents for themes that permeate the filiation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a reflexion about the social-environmental psychology as a social psychology that aims to articulate psychology, education and environment. It is proposed a type of social-environmental intervention thought as an original and innovative strategy, whose pedagogical influences would transcend the social-environmental field to which is directed, reverberating its effects to beyond its boundaries. We search, with this reflexion, to recover the thought (near the Frankfurt School) of Kurt Lewin, transposing its postulations to the contemporary world. Thus, the proposed social-environmental intervention would consist in a draft of a cultural reconstruction method of the present in the direction of a utopian future, committed with the democracy and emancipation, a way to a true pacific revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses a discussion on excessive consumption in postmodernity and its effects on female subjectivity. From a theoretical perspective guided by the social sciences and gender studies, consumerist behavior and its pathological bias are seen primarily as symptomatic products of sociocultural transformations, which impact the emotional lives of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present the main results of a Master thesis that investigated the meanings of the concept of equation that Mathematics Teachers have in your concept image. This research was based on the work of Ribeiro and of Tall and Vinner, and the data were collected through semi-structured interviews, which contemplated mathematical situations concerning the concept of equation. Among the main results we highlight that our teachers presented, basically in their concept images, meanings Procedural-Technicist and Intuitive-Pragmatic. Finally, we plan, starting from our research, to propose reflections that will lead to a broader discussion of the concept of equation for Mathematics Teacher Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of some of the German expressionist films produced in the early twentieth century enables us point to the existence of common and recurring themes such as the voluntary submission of individuals, the mass manipulation by leaders, the split personality, and the double. Although such issues seem to refer, at first, only to the characters' psychological disorders, Sigfried Kracauer seeks to demonstrate the relationship between the topics covered in expressionist films and Germany's social reality in the postwar period. In this perspective, the aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between aspects of the individual psychic reality, especially alienation, mental alienation, and estrangement produced by social reality. It puts together the strange (Das Unheimliche) discussed by Freud, the concept of estrangement (Entfremdung) by Marx, and the effect of estrangement in art (Verfremdungseffekt) by Bertolt Brecht, discussed by Herbert Marcuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to WHO, obesity and depression are among the greatest Public Health problems worldwide. Some studies show important association between these diseases that can worsen the prognostic for co-morbidities, reduce compliance with treatment, increase morbidity and mortality, and deteriorate the functional and psychosocial roles of obese people. This paper comes out from a Master thesis research in Family Health, aiming to investigate the perception of depressed obese people about the factors linked with the maintenance of their obesity. This is a qualitative exploratory study in a Family Health Service in Rio de Janeiro city. Sixty-eight obese people were randomly selected, and, among them, 21 showed depression scores, measured by the Beck Depression Inventory. Out of these, 19 were interviewed and the resulting data were analyzed through the content analysis technique. Some of the main categories found were physical suffering, sedentary behavior, emotional suffering, self-image dissatisfaction, inadequate eating behavior, family and social relationships, and the motivation for change. They were grouped in five thematic axes: the perception of one's obesity, the feed behavior, the family environment, the social retraction, and the lack of motivation. Taken together, the perceptions of these people were mapped in a complex net of mutually reinforcing factors associated with the maintenance of the obesity, and this is aggravated by depression. These results could help to conceive new strategies for an integral and specific care of obese people, mostly those who are depressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we are developing a reflection that takes the fear as a central connection between the world of news and readers, listeners and viewers. The starting point is the acceptance that such a feeling is a kind of social representation that establishes a kind of consensus among the population, in this special case of Rio de Janeiro, producing meanings of urban space. For both, especially to cause a rapprochement between the fields of communication and psychology, regain some contributions of two famous authors, Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Vygotsky, particularly with regard to the dimension of culture as a structuring element of social interaction. Secondly, we will consider the question of the centrality of culture, highlighting the ideological struggle around which produces the hegemonic construction of meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A few years ago, the evidence raised by the neurosciences and the proliferation of psychopathological categories have contributed to the legitimacy and the multiplication of speeches filled with promises of cure for mental suffering. In this context - where psychopathology is approached from a predominantly biological understanding and the proliferation of diagnostic categories is accompanied by the predominance of a syndromic approach to mental illness - the emphasis on biological therapy operates as a promise of exclusion of the malaise of life. This is a process of naturalization of psychological distress in which the proliferation of diagnostic categories is proportional to the diversity of mental suffering that can be medicated. In this paper, we present some concepts, forged by Freud, as anxiety, helplessness and death drive, as indicators of the possibility of intervening in psychological distress through different perspectives of those who promise the exclusion of evil from life. If evil is a sign of disorder sponsored by the drive that could not enroll in the psychic apparatus, then psychoanalysis includes evil at the heart of the psychic life itself. The latter only is constituted and transformed by the possibility of creating new meanings, new forms of satisfaction for the vital impulse, insistent on excellence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the emergence of linguistics as modern science at the beginning of the twentieth century, developed a concept very clear about the need to establish linguistics as an autonomous science in the general framework of the social sciences. Not by chance the motto of the First Congress of Linguists, held in The Hague in 1928, was "the autonomy of linguistics" (Jakobson, 1970, p. 12). However, the autonomy of linguistics as a science not isolated from other areas of knowledge. Despite the fundamental role that language plays within the social sciences, one must admit other ways of seeing the linguistic phenomenon and seek to interpret them in terms of interdisciplinary complementarity. In this paper, we try to present some considerations about the contributions to the study of language, theorizing about the functions of language formulated during the mid-twentieth century, both in the area of structural linguistics, drawing on contributions from Roman Jakobson, as in psychology, focusing on studies of Lev Vygotsky. The goal is not to make comparisons and relationships between the theories themselves, but show parallel conceptions that analyze the functions of language recognizing the importance of each of the authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present an experience report about the work of scholar psychologists in Elementary School, emphasizing the development of a teaching project. This project intended to improve the interpersonal relationship between students in a fourth grade class. Through group work, method proposed by the new pedagogy of Jean Piaget (1998), and problematizing education of Paulo Freire (1997), systematic meetings were held with students to reflect on ethical values, bullying and protection of child rights. It was observed throughout this project relationship and communication improvements between peers, what suggests that interventions have contributed to improve the relationship between students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies suggest that, among treatment orientations for treatment of diabetes, diet has been the one with the least adhesion. This study aimed to compare the effects of self-monitoring practice on the behavior adhesion of two types of nutritional rule (Food Planning [FP] and Total Carbohydrate Counting -- [TCC]) in four adults with Type 2 diabetes. In home interview was the data collection procedure. After characterization of the baseline (BL) in eating behavior of the four participants, two of them were subjected to Training Condition A (Self-Monitoring with PA followed by TCC), the other two participants to Training Condition B (Self-Monitoring with TCC followed by PA), and follow-up interviews with all four participants. As adhesion measures, Glycated hemoglobin and the Adherence Index to the Diet (AID) shown in percentages were used. It was observed on the participants' BL that the AIDs of all participants were below 50%, increasing after the self-monitoring training, regardless of their condition, being the average from TCC (75,50%) greater than that of FP (62,49%), declining afterwards in both conditions. It was also observed that the Glycated hemoglobin values in three participants had been reduced. The paper discusses the importance of nutritionists in prescribing individualized treatment and beyond the focus of the disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The essence of psychoanalytic theory is a discourse without words", Lacan says in the first class of the Seminar, book 16, From an Other to the other. Where can the paradox of this sentence send us to? First of all, according to Lacan, a signifier cannot represent itself. This takes us, therefore, to the long scope of the expression itself for the signifier proper. There would be, so to speak, an opacity, an inconsistency in the signifier structure itself, which leads us to conclude that there is no closing point of discourse, even more, "there is no universe of discourse". We clinically translate such statement verifying that there will always be what cannot be said. That does not mean taking the analytic discourse as impossible, nor devalue it. It is an impasse that is, above all, a logical-mathematical one. Hence this paper presents the radicality of the logical inconsistency of the Other as a correlate of a call to what Lacan names "spirit of psychoanalysis" when addressing his School. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this text is mapping and reflecting on the third generation of Brazilian researchers in gender psychology, doing an articulation with the integration of masculinities studies and queer studies on these groups of research. This generation, to which the authors of this paper belong, consists of groups of researchers already enrolled in an organized field, in which they use the gender category, concept recognized in the social sciences and humanities a long time ago. It is important to take into account that one of the main roles of this generation has been spreading and deepening the achievements, both theoretical and methodological, attained by earlier generations. In general, we can state that the third generation reflects the current value of plurality, the appreciation of new subjects on the feminism field on Brazil, bringing topics for research focused on the search for legitimacy in the new configurations of the Brazilian feminist movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the author circumscribes the notion of alterity using Andre Green's theoretical perspective and reflects about the vicissitude of the alterities in the psychoanalytical process. Initially, the author describes the dialog that A. Green develop with J. Lacan around the question of subjectivity and otherness, for in later stage deepen into the psychoanalytical process, showing how the transference induces objetalization and integration of internal and external alterities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss some aspects of the problem of child sexual abuse, specifically incest, drawing on psychoanalysis and, in particular, the psychoanalytic practice proposed by Françoise Dolto, allowing the concepts of symbolic castration, symbolic function, and unconscious body image and language to take incest as the study object in order to propose a psychoanalytic clinic devoted to listening to the subject, going beyond the legal concerns of policies on reporting and complaints, but not interfering in them, reflecting on the role of the psychologist and psychoanalyst in the clinic for children of sexual abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the dimension of alterity in Hans W. Loewald's work, presenting and discussing some of his theoretical conceptions. After a brief presentation of the author and his work, some formulations and concepts related to his original conception of reality are explained and debated, putting in evidence the place of alterity in his work. These conceptualizations are: the levels of ego-reality integration; the Oedipus Complex' relational understanding; and the idea of a continuous psychic constitution, in which the present time dimension acquires relevance. After that, his late formulations are presented, based on the Freud's second drives theory and his revised concept of projection. The ideas of unison and reverberation as empathy and the projection concept evidence the double presence of driving forces - in the ego and in the other ones -become related to the experience of knowledge about himself and about the world. These ideas especially evidence the dimension of alterity in Loewald's work [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Departing from Freud's image of the shadow of the object that fell upon the ego, Bollas discovers an inexhaustible source for his own ideas, unfolding a myriad of meaningful and creative contributions to contemporary psychoanalysis. Following a tradition in psychoanalysis that emphasizes the role of the environment in psychic constitution, Bollas turns to the main aspects of classical Psychoanalysis theory, either proposing new concepts or invigorating those already well established. Without committing to the easy solution of opposing intrapsychic and intersubjective conceptions about the psyche, he rather keeps them in a permanent and fertile dialogue. This paper, an introductory one, presents some of his major conceptions about the role of the other in the constitution of the silent - though evocative - roots of the unconscious in its structural dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research paper was to understand social representations of depression in high school adolescents in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. The study included 11 subjects aged between 14 and 17 years with depressive symptons, selected from a group of 296 adolescents. Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and the Semi- Structured Interview were two of the instruments used in the research, allowing results to indicate that depression is associated with feelings of sadness, such as discouragement and suicidal ideas; mostly those people without human initiatives and who don't make plans for the future. These feelings may be related to various behaviors, such as isolation, aggressiveness and difficulty to be friend someone or even establish relationships. These associations are a result of adolescents experiences, as well as information and representations linked to a youth group they belong, pointing out to the need for preventive and educational practices in educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By common sense, adolescents with intellectual disabilities have a heightened sexuality or are asexual. To learn how they experience the sexual manifestations of their children, we interviewed 14 parents of adolescents with this deficiency. The analysis of the narratives obtained was based on authors of anthropology. In them, there were prejudices and ignorance on the subject, as well as playing the gender ideology of our society. In the narratives of parents of adolescent males, masturbation, sex and fear of sexual abuse were highlighted, while parents privileged themes such as bodily changes and also the fear that they were sexually abused. The mismatch between physical development and sexual behavior considered socially improper was also the target of narratives. The paper points up the need to expand the discussion with teens, their parents and various sectors of society to minimize biases regarding sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities, providing a guarantee of their sexual rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies show that certain types of music can promote the maintenance of mental health, reduce or prevent stress, alleviate physical fatigue and induce emotions, which leads us to reflect on its use as a therapy resource. This paper aims at discussing about the use of music to induce relaxation, the benefits of this resource in the therapeutic process and its application in the Personal Integration Therapy by Unconscious Direct Approach method (ADI/TIP). For this, we performed a literature review explaining the history of the use of music for therapeutic purposes, its effects on the physiological and emotional states and consequent benefits to its use from the induction of relaxation. It was observed that considered sedative music, with slow tempo and few rhythmic variations can reduce stress and promote relaxation, which points to the benefits of its use as a facilitator of the therapeutic process of (ADI/TIP). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dennett (1981/1987b) characterizes his approach as to how intentional terms (those for the so called propositional attitudes) work as a "holistic logical behaviorism," or a holistic version of some of Ryle's (1949) conceptual remarks. This paper examines possible contributions and disadvantages of Dennett's approach, as well as the consequences of this proposal in relation to the employment of intentional terms in psychology. It is argued that Dennett's approach does not turn out to be more accurate than his predecessor's, since the mentalistic dimension it adds to the latter is erroneous. Accordingly, Dennett's contributions and related proposal should be understood without the implications of this dimension. A non-mentalistic alternative, based upon Skinner's selectionist model, for eventually adopting intentional terms in psychology is briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the interface between psychoanalysis and culture, this paper aims to raise some considerations about the contemporary debate of the psychoanalytic notion of sexual difference introduced by shifts in the field of sexuality and the challenges they impose on the psychoanalytic area. From the background of the new cartography of sexuality, uses, as main reference, the dialogue between Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek on the status of the notion of sexual difference in psychoanalysis, in order to consider to what extent psychoanalysis bases the constitution of the difference on the binary model and the hierarchical gender division, contributing to the normative maintenance of the sex-gender system or, to what extent the psychoanalytic theory offers a shift from the dimorphic model of sexual difference to a distinct way of thinking the difference, contributing to the understanding of otherness while meaning indetermination and contingency. In this way, explores the interpretations of Butler about some fundamental concepts of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as the Oedipus complex, and the Žižek's considerations about the reading of Butler. This study final aim is to enhance the dialogue between contemporary authors in order to conduct further psychoanalytic readings, demonstrating the possibility of the psychoanalytic theory of reconsidering and resubmitting in face of new socio-historical questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For most women, breast cancer and the frequent amputation foster the development of a negative impact on their body image and, therefore, on their sexuality. The breast is closely related to female identity, maturity, sexuality and motherhood, so the impact of mastectomy on women seems to be clear, leading to challenges for perioperative nurses. Accordingly we produced this paper, whose main objective was to integrate and analyze data from studies, contributing to a better understanding of the current situation and promoting increased quality of care. To this end, research was undertaken using the following databases: Medline interfaced with PubMed, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Repertoire Open Access Scientific Portugal and CINAHL, from which 6 studies were selected according to defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results of the studies analyzed show that depreciation of body image is directly related to the experience of sexuality such that the more mutilating the surgery, the greater the decline in body image. In this context, nursing interventions, particularly informative, are of extremely important, because they facilitate adaptive processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose a refection on contemporary practices in mental health in Brazil. The discussion is based on a study organized as part of a curricular internship in psychology devel-oped at a Psychosocial Attention Center (CAPS). The Center is responsible for the assistance of adult patients with severe mental suffering. This article begins with a short panorama of CAPS since its instauration. We, then, present our experience in of these centers in order to describe the vicissitudes of psychology clinic and the discussions elicited by them. This experience, in turn, has allowed a critical perspective in relation to work in mental health, especially as regards to unreflect aspects that become habitual by repetition. This critical perspective highlights nodal points to consider in the discussion of Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and the insertion of the psy-chologist, such as: the not yet overcome dichotomy between clinic and politics that promote dis-connected interventions; psychologists' lack of theoretical and technical resources when facing severe and persistent suffering - which reproduces a clinical model that must be overcome; the bureaucracy that prevents or hinders new solutions, as well as an unsuspected employment of the asylum paradigm in services that were created to substitute the hospital-centered assistance model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aimed to identify sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of population who look for enuresis treatment in a university care center for this disorder and to identify the most used familiar coping strategies facing the episodes of "wet" in cases of primary nocturnal enuresis. Descriptive analyses of medical files were performed from 185 children (6-11 years old) and 55 adolescents (12-18 years old), from both sexes, screened between 2004 and 2009, whose extracted information were: sociodemographic and clinical data as well as family coping strategies. High frequency of "wet night" over six weekly was identified in children and adolescents (70.6% and 50%). There was a male (67.9%) prevalence of a child population (77.1%) from middle-class families. When the family looked for previous treatment, medication treatment proved to be the priority among children (28.7%) and adolescents (47.1%). More frequent strategies facing enuretic episodes for minimizing damage and preventing bed wetness in both age groups were: using diapers or protective mattress and waking the child to go to the bathroom. Punishment was declared by only 15.4% of parents of children and 17.3% of adolescents. The data showed that the low incidence of disadvantaged families in the service constitutes a challenge since the philosophy of the service is attending all economic tracks, and the burden brought by enuresis seems to push families into searching for alternatives to solve the problem when the first response to clinical treatment is not satisfactory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the conditions present for the emergence of the talking cure as one among other medical therapies in the late 19th century. The hypothesis is that the construction of the psychism as a medical object is related to the emergence of medical categories for symptoms that seem to have no anatomical basis, such as neurasthenia, hysteria and psychosthenia. These categories helped show that purely organic explanations were insufficient to explain many symptoms. They therefore contributed to the establishment up a new style of clinical treatment based on speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses Freud's reading of Dostoyevsky's hystero-epilepsy, based onthis latter's literary production, biography and correspondence. The hypothesis that there was no epilepsy has its limits, but we found that the relationship between Dostoyevsky and father figures did play a crucial role in his neurosis, which served as a symptomatic construction to deal with his helplessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The second half of the 20th century is the time of the institutionalization of suffering at work, and especially of mental suffering. However, more than a psychological category, suffering appears to have become a new key for the discussion of work, its meaning, its worth, and its purpose in the understanding of subjectivity, as well as for how social ties are structured and how one lives in society. If, on the one hand, there seems to be no doubt left that suffering at work, as a form of malaise, is an analytical category that drives the actions of several actors that study and intervene in this field, on the other hand the presence of debate on the nature, reasons and implications of this taking of sides before the subject and work appears to have become less commonplace. The purpose of this paper is to offer a contribution in this direction. We argue that the rhetoric of suffering positions the subject as a vulnerable being that needs constant input and support to act, while work itself is conceived of as a threat. The article discusses the possibilities created by a shift from the subject of suffering to the subject of action, and from work as a disease factor to work as a creative activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The regulation of Graduate Programs in Brazil is less than five decades old. Along this period, the system has been successful concerning its results, even though some of its essential features remain unfinished. In the field of Psychology, the system comprises 64 Programs and 42 of them offer Doctoral degrees. In order to efficiently cope the demands of the Brazilian Graduate System, the Psychology area will need to face challenges, some of which we highlight in this paper. They are: (a) the enlargement of geographical and thematic scope in order to overcome regional asymmetries and thematic gaps in psychological research; (b) the improvement of the evaluation system in order to comprise the diverse strategies in instructing new researchers and the knowledge production in every subarea of Psychology; (c) the necessity of a link among different areas of Graduate Programs in Psychology since the basis for knowledge production in this field may have additional demands related to the development of intervention technologies; and (d) the elaboration of policies which may qualify the system, improving the research networks, providing international exchange for the groups, promoting scientific publications, and extensive methodological learning, for instance. The diagnosis of these and other challenges, in their multiple dimensions, may lead to a more efficient use of the potentials of Brazilian research groups, towards the development of knowledge production and training new researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The models guiding the intervention of the educational psychologist suggest a multiplicity of opportunities / options that each professional will have to take. Research has long suggested that learning together leads all students to better results (e.g., Johnson & Johnson, 1990, 1994; Slavin, 1991). Although many psychologists still work only with an individual perspective, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways in which the educational psychology can create and sustain authentic inclusion settings. This is based on Vigotsky's belief that all children, in spite of their disabilities, should have access to the regular school system. Starting from the analysis of three key aspects inclusion, special education needs and psychology; it concludes with some suggestions that help define how the educational psychology can contribute to the success of all students in the regular school system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the items of "Padrões" test - a multiple-choice computerized test of field dependenceindependence - considering the one, two or three parameters logistic models of Item Response Theory (TRI). A sample of 1918 candidates to an aeronautic course on Portuguese Air Force was considered. We analyzed the adjustment level for one parameter (1PL), two parameters (2PL) and three (3PL) parameters logistic models. Results show that 1PL adjusted to all items, 2PL adjusted to half, and 3PL didn't allow the assurance of the previous conditions. Data analysis suggest that the first reason for 2PL and 3PL models maladjustment is the lack of unidimensionality, which can be considered as an illustration of the basic exigencies for IRT implementation on psychological test construction and validation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we approach the idea that, the ease or fluency of information processing being subjectively experienced as feeling of familiarity with a positive affective tone, interfere with evaluative processing. The close association of familiarity and positive affect is here addressed within a affective priming paradigm. Participants were asked to evaluate a set of target stimuli previously tested for their valence. These targets were immediately preceded either by a familiar or a unfamiliar stimuli. Congruently with the familiarity-positive affect association, familiar stimuli facilitated evaluations (generate faster responses) of affective consistent targets (positive targets). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses de evolution of the symbolic communication, as an interplay between symbolic expression and interpretation, during the therapeutic process. Wittgenstein's (1953, 1975) notion of language-games is used as a framework to analyse the specificities of the symbolic communication. A clinic vignette of a child's analytic psychotherapy is used in order to illustrate one of the central characteristics of the language-games used in therapy - the inter-relation between different thematic discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The assimilation model is an integrative model that can be applied to any kind of therapeutic setting for describing the process of change. The Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Scale (APES) describes the process of assimilation of problematic experiences in therapy. Although the APES presents an orderly sequence, studies have shown that assimilation process is not smooth; instead it seems to follow a sawtoothed path, with advances followed by setbacks or reversals, particularly in cognitive psychotherapies. In this paper, we report an analysis of assimilation setbacks in the process of of a good-outcome client, María, treated with linguistic therapy of evaluation are analyzed. The sample is composed of 105 setbacks taken from analysis of María's assimilation of three main problems. The reasons for most of the setbacks could be classified in one of three categories: the zone of proximal development, the balance metaphor, and multiple strands. Each of these categories can be understood as a consequence of the cognitive strategy and thus part of the process of cognitive therapy rather than a deviation or failure. In this sense setbacks, framed in the assimilation model, reflect some of the main characteristics of cognitive therapy. Nevertheless, we could not exclude the possibility that setbacks could mark a prospective drop-out; therefore, therapists should pay attention and resolve them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present and analyze the reformist movement in economic modeling that serves to better predict patterns of choice over time. Based on a vast literature shedding light on the mutual gains of exchange between economists and psychologists, we argue that behavioral models that replace the constant (exponential) discounting with that of hyperbolic (nonconstant) time preference discounting contribute to a better understanding of various intertemporal choice anomalies and eventually pave the way for the explanatory (and predictive) progress of contemporary economic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]