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The aim of this paper is to present participant research from a group of older adult women (aged over sixty years) reading and writing poetry. The research monitored whether reading and writing poetry helped in the production of new meanings about aging, as well as the reflection that the older adults had about the aging development phase and its aesthetic, social and cultural ramifications. After reading the poems produced and the descriptive notes of the meetings, the following categories of analysis emerged: the meetings as an area of appropriation, conviviality and re- flection for the participants; society and the possibility of an active position in aging; the appropriation of the body in aging: experiences and criticism of the aesthetic model; and memory: recollections and meanings. As a result of the poetry workshop a space was established for creation, sharing and social recognition, recovery of memories and reflections about the stigmas. [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]

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is characterized by severe and persistent pattern of hyperactivity and/or inattention, which is harmful. The correct assessment may be influenced by comorbidity and difficult of characterization. This paper evaluated the contribution of psychologist and psychiatrists on a correct avaliation and treatment elaboration. Ten psychologist and eight psychiatrists take part on semi-structured interview. The analysis was descriptive and qualitative. After comparing them we found that the psychologies and psychiatries of this sample contribute to the diagnostic in their specific ways and that the junctions of knowledge throw interdisciplinary work allows a better disorder comprehension and the development of a more efficient intervention plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dichotomy within the desire of staying or getting out of the hospital seems to be part of many user’s life whom are attended by mental health services. Thus, this paper intends to reflect on this issue, highlighting the main problems reported by some users when they were admitted to a psychiatric hospital in São Paulo, between the years 2005 and 2007, and the content analysis sustained from the perspective of social constructionism. It was concluded that the lack of a support network integrated extramural, and recurrent hospitalizations, hinder social reintegration and open space for the “want to stay in hospital”. However, this supposed desire, not without suffering. The statements marked by sorrowful faces, slips of the tongue or tears, calls for the reconstruction of their citizenship and autonomy, the only possible conditions to “can” go out.