Automutilação: um estudo sobre a representação da autolesão em uma comunidade virtual de praticantes

• Autor(a) principal: Fabbrini, Felipe Moreira Borges Nascimento
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/26270
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA; Autolesão; Automutilação; ALNS; Nonsuicidal self-injury; Self-harm; Social media

Nonsuicidal self-injury is a phenomenon of growing relevance with high prevalence rates in adolescents and young adults. Although reluctant to seek professional help, self-injury practitioners have high rates of internet use and online risky behavior, which makes it necessary to investigate the phenomenon in this context. Thus, the present work carried out a virtual ethnography in the group “self-mutilation” on Facebook to understand how self-injury is described in a virtual community composed and moderated by practitioners. The contents shared by users in the community were collected and distributed into five categories of analysis: self-injury, suffering, suicide, religion and help. The analysis was conducted from the framework of analytical psychology. Self-injury is represented in the community as a compulsive behavior with addictive characteristics. Posts of explicit self-injury images generate significantly more engagement than help posts and promote an increase in the number of photos of injuries in subsequent moments. Although the community presents benefits such as the availability of members to talk and provide support, there are considerable harmful aspects such as posts inciting suicide and self-injury, hostility in interactions and lack of competence to deal with the suffering of others. Finally, the need to develop new intervention strategies in the online environment is highlighted