Da destruição dos sonhos à retomada da vida: o significado construído para a lesão medular e a retomada do projeto de vida

• Autor(a) principal: Vasco, Camila Carrascoza
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• 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/15400
• topic: Lesão medular; Mundo presumido; Luto; Reabilitação física; Spinal cord injury; Assumptive world; Grief; Physical rehabilitati; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The acquisition of a physical disability involves not only the changes related to body aspects, but also the emotional repercussion of such an event. Whereas the loss of previous living conditions generates a grieving process and the need to review the assumptive world, the research aimed to investigate the meaning-making by the paraplegic individuals for the traumatic spinal cord injury, and analyze the process of resumption of their life project after physical disability. The qualitative approach was adopted and a research through semi-structured interviews with four paraplegics individuals, between 18 and 22 years old. Was used content analysis and then the results were discussed with the theoretical foundation, including spinal cord injury, assumptive world, mourning, meaning-making and family repercussions. Facing the multiple losses imposed by the physical disability, it was required that each participant revisit their presumed world, because them was challenged by the occurred. It was noticed that the meanings constructed by the participants to the event in their lives were positive, denoting growth, transformation, evolution, recovery and learning. Such meanings contributed in directing the new life s project, which had to adapt to the current reality of paraplegics. It was also observed that the spinal cord injury enable them to discover new interests and showed how they were able to face the disability. The process experienced by those participants highlighted the importance of physical rehabilitation, from family, which along them suffer repercussions and support network, because the physical disability afflicts on the individuals identity, which needs support to reorganize their lives, to elaborate mourning and reinvest in future plans