This article asks the hesitation of many contemporary Brazilian psychoanalysts in working with psychological suffering linked to racism. To do this, we seek to debate the irreducibility of psychoanalysis to an "individual psychology", and understand how, from Freud to Lacan, otherness is constitutive of the psychic apparatus. Subsequently, we advance the debate by recovering elements of the socio-historical context of the arrival of psychoanalysis in Brazil-in the midst of eugenics and hygienism-and depoliticization in the dictatorship as points that may have contributed to a certain distancing of analysts from the debate. Finally, we bring the context of redemocratization and the contribution of four black women analysts-Virginia Bicudo, Lelia Gonzalez, Neusa dos Santos and Isildinha Batista-in their work on racism in Brazil, as marks of a greater and growing repositioning in the anti-racism psychoanalytic direction.
This study investigated the experience of religiosity among homosexual men in Bel & eacute;m of Par & aacute;. Seven men, aged between 25 and 38 years, self-declared as homosexuals and practitioners of Catholic and Evangelical religions, participated in the study. The narratives were organized into four categories: relationship between religiosity and sexuality; integration strategies; religiosity as an obstacle to the acceptance of homosexuality; and prejudice within the religious community. It was observed that religiosity in the Amazon plays a controlling role over homosexual subjectivities, forcing them to hide their mannerisms and affective expressions. On the other hand, Christian values and the support form part of the religious community are important strategies for maintaining gay men's adherence to their faith.
This research aimed to evaluate the documented strategies for mental health care of PHC workers carried out by the Federal, State and Municipal public authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This was a qualitative research in public health, configured as a basic research, with descriptive and documentary objectives regarding the procedures employed. Analyses were carried out of the Annual Management Reports (RAG) of the Ministry of Health (MS), the State Health Department (SESA-CE) and the Municipal Health Departments (SMS) of Fortaleza, Sobral, Itapipoca, Quixad & aacute;, Crate & uacute;s, Iguatu and Juazeiro do Norte. The period covered was between 2020 and 2023. Data analysis was performed using Thematic Content Analysis. The results are: the inaccessibility of data that should be public and it is concluded that there were no mental health care actions for primary care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The aim of this article is to discuss and to analyze the effects of workshops conducted with heterogeneous groups, based on the proposal of a clinical practice capable of incorporating the perspective of the body, affects, and encounters, highlighting its ethical-aesthetic-political potential. The specific workshops were developed through the somatic-performative cartographic method, in addition to psychological practice itself. By improvising in the exploration of the relations between body, desire, and subjectivity, sensitive experiences were articulated that emerge in the encounter with the other. Fragments of participants' accounts demonstrate that the activities had a significant impact beyond the individual realm, affecting them in different ways. The immersion in the body and the modifications of affective states provided a clinic capable of generating new forms of relation.
The article addresses the difficulties involved in adapting literary works to the film medium. For this purpose, it first reviews criteria and approaches to adaptation and then focuses on analyzing two films: 'Maruja en el infierno' by Francisco Lombardi, based on the novel 'No una sino muchas muertes' by Enrique Congrains; and 'Death and the Maiden,' a film by Roman Polanski, based on the play by Ariel Dorfman. In both cases, the aim is to observe whether the original work is preserved, altered, or enriched. Special mention is made of women's participation as protagonists in the narrative.
