Search

Copyright of Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva is the property of CEPESC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Qualitative research was developed with the aim of understanding the psychosocial repercussions of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the population affected by the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Mariana (MG), in 2015, belonging to the Samarco mining company and its maintainers VALE and BHP Billiton. Participant observation techniques and focus groups were used. The narratives of health professionals and affected people were analyzed through Content Analysis, from the sociocultural, symbolic and political factors found in this context of overlapping mining disaster and pandemic. The results show that the experience of those affected during the pandemic presents singularities such as the intensification of the rupture of social and community ties that had already been identified since the disaster. Grief during the pandemic is also enhanced by the collective grief already experienced since the tragedy. There is an intensification of suffering due to the lack of information and the postponement of the resettlement delivery. It is possible to identify the pandemic as another point of suffering for this vulnerable population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses possibilities of contributions from Lacanian Psychoanalysis to some impasses and dilemmas experienced in the field of practice and research of Public Health. It is assumed that the psychoanalytic formulations potentiate transformations in health practices related to the deconstruction of the biomedical paradigm, enabling a more complex approach to the health-illness process. For that, it presents historical, epistemological, theoretical, methodological and political aspects through the problematization of the concepts of unconsciousness, symptom, diagnosis, transference, interdisciplinary work, knowledge production and social bond. The reflection intends to emphasize the need to stimulate creative reflections beyond the mere prescription of conduct in order to operate in an ethic that escapes the imposition of norms and values. It proposes, therefore, an extension of the understanding of the phenomena, the identification of new dynamics and rationalities and the construction of new forms of intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]