Convivendo com residências terapêuticas: concepções sociais, processos identitários e relações intergrupais
| Ano de defesa: | 2014 |
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| Tipo de documento: | Tese |
| Tipo de acesso: | Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: | por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
BR Doutorado em Psicologia UFES Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia |
| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Não Informado pela instituição
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Não Informado pela instituição
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| País: |
Não Informado pela instituição
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| Link de acesso: | http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/9071 |
Resumo: | We developed this thesis in order to examine the intergroup relations in the context of living in the same neighborhood as Therapeutic Residences (RTs). Through an ethnographic approach that included interviews and observations, we investigated the conceptions of residents of a neighborhood that encompasses three RTs in relation to living in the same neighborhood as these Residences and to the interaction with the RTs’ dwellers in public spaces. Three complementary studies were conducted. In the first study we explored the participants’ conceptions on three main aspects: the psychiatric hospital, its closure, and the destiny of ex-inpatients without family ties. We used the social representations theory to discuss our data in this initial study. We observed that the psychiatric hospital was seen as a reference for the participants, it was represented as a “house for the recovering of crazy people", and a necessary place mainly due to the existence of the "crazy dangerous". The participants showed displeasure with the psychiatric hospital closure, but at the same time, they demonstrated a favorable attitude toward its deactivation based on the interaction with ex-inpatients who lived at the RTs in the neighborhood, which were represented as nonaggressive. Nonetheless, the participants suggested that the RTs were transferred to distant locations, such as "farm-houses”. In the second study, based on the social identity theory, we addressed the participants’ conceptions about living in the same neighborhood as the RTs, which were conceived as places that exert some control over the RT’s dwellers, playing the role of the psychiatric hospital. In addition to that, the presence of RTs in the neighborhood allowed the "outsiders" to classify that place as the "neighborhood of crazy people", reflecting negatively at the participants’ social identity. This may have been one of the reasons that justified the tendency of intergroup differentiation in the relationship between participants and the RTs’ dwellers, which can be understood as a result of a need for seeking a positive social identity. Nevertheless, old stereotypes associated with craziness, such as the social dangerousness, were fading by the daily coexistence. Even with the tendency to separation, there was a movement that points to the possibility of coexistence without major conflicts between the groups involved, illustrating the ambiguity of relations, since in the context of living in the same space as the RTs, “there is no cake’s recipe”. Finally, in the third study we discussed the social representations of interaction with the RTs’ dwellers, and we used an integration of the theory of social identity and the theory of social representations to analyze our data. Participants knew the RTs’ dwellers from seeing them around and they recognized them by nicknames and also by name. The circulation through the neighborhood’s public spaces enabled the dialogue between the participants and the RTs’ dwellers; however, this dialogue was restricted to brief greetings: "we go by, hi there, hi here". The reports indicating the creation of links coexisted with the social representations that support the limitation of the residents to a dialogue. We believe that the social representation of the RTs’ dwellers as having limitations to conversation had a specific and important function to the participants in relation to the processes of identity construction. We are facing an ambiguous reality that shows the desire of intergroup separation, but also reveals the chances for dialogue between the craziness and the public space, even if it is through some conditions such as quick and distant relationships. To ensure that the house of crazies is a common space is essential in this discussion, which implies the neighborhood residents’ social participation and their frequency in the public sphere |