O luto por um irmão: vivências da espiritualidade

• Autor(a) principal: Barasuol, Rúbia Buêno
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15150
• topic: Luto; Morte; Espiritualidade; Psicologia fenomenológica; Grief; Death; Spirituality; Phenomenological psychology; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The objective of this dissertation is to try to understand the lived experiences of spirituality of an adult person whose brother died of cancer, focusing on the period from the diagnosis of the disease to the present situation. This is a qualitative research based on the phenomenological approach. The research collaborator was intentionally chosen in order to apprehend the phenomenon, based on the following criteria: it should be a young adult (age between 25 and 35 years-old) that had experienced the illness process and the grief over a brother for approximately one year, and that was able to verbally express the loss and the spiritual experiences of that period. A semi-structured interview was used to conduct the research. Eight topics appeared, based on the narration, and they were grouped in four larger topics that guided the interview analysis: experiencing grief; experiencing spirituality; experiencing spirituality in the grief‟s context; and conceptions about life, death and spirituality. Through a bibliographic review that involved the two larger areas of this study grief and spirituality some considerations were made, as well as a dialog with the authors that study these areas, about the four topics chosen for analysis. It was concluded that the spirituality dimension is affected by the experience of losing a brother. The lived experience of faith and the relationship with God and the holy are shaken in this situation. The spiritual beliefs are questioned and evaluated, and spiritual transitions take place in the grieving process. New meanings are built so that the spiritual/religious beliefs can continue in the life of the bereaved, under new perspectives and meanings