Aqui renasce a esperança: histórias de vida e fé de ex- pacientes de hanseníase

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Anízio, Ednice Fideles Cavalcante
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciência das Religiões; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Hanseníase; História de vida; Logoterapia; Fé; Leprosy; Life history; Logotherapy; Faith; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/12204

The purpose of this study was to understand, through an analysis of the life histories of former leprosy patients, as experienced in compulsory isolation colonies, found sense to continue to live and relate to the sacred, thereby building a new story life .. Highlight the subjectivity, the conflicts and contradictions of a curable skin disease, millennia associated with "leprosy" and mythically related to the sacred. We had as general objective: To investigate the motives for the leprosy patients regain a sense of their lives and relationship with the sacred and objectives: To rescue the life story of former leprosy patients who live in Colônia Getúlio Vargas Hospital, located the city of Bayeux - PB; identify the reasons that contributed to the recovery of the meaning of life of former patients and to relate the reasons identified by former leprosy patients with their religious beliefs. The methodological approach was based on the Oral History of Life, presented by Good Meihy. We interviewed eleven employees: five women and six men. The data were analyzed and presented in narrative form, from two categories: I-The motivation of the former leprosy patients regain a sense of their lives and IIA list of former leprosy patients with the sacred and the faith as a reason for life for expatients of the Colônia Getúlio Vargas. In category I, we follow the analysis in the approach Frankliana – Logotherapy "The human being finds meaning by making creative values, experiential and attitudinal." Thus, in their speeches the former patients had as creative values: space, time and labor as vivencias: personal relationships, dating, marriage, family and sexuality, and attitudinal data processing and improvement. In this category the greatest emphasis was given to improvement due to treatment and interpersonal relationships. Category II identified the disease as permission and punishment of God, the healing power from the Superior and death as a passage to paradise. Unanimously cited the Biblical parable (LEV-14) on the healing of ten lepers. The manifestation of the sacred among the majority happened through dreams. Most employees said their faith as a premise for the recovery of meaning and overcoming the disease. Thus we consider that most former patients managed to build a new life, overcoming prejudice and exile, and despite the difficulties, they built a new story, after recovering a sense of their lives and deposit faith in supernatural power. This faith that keeps them in constant relationship with the sacred, and has renewed hope to this day. This study enabled a discussion about the importance of life's meaning and influence of faith in overcoming the pain and suffering, being complacent allies for all professionals involved in human care.