Entre o viver e o morrer: os lutos de mulheres brasileiras cuidados através do grupo e literatura

Resumo (EN)

The experience of grief goes beyond the loss caused by the death of a loved one; it is also present in the losses that occur throughout life. This study aimed to analyze the main forms of grief experienced by women and the potential of group-based literature as a resource for grief elaboration; to map the different types of grief experienced by the participants across the life cycle; and to understand how women deal with these losses. To this end, a qualitative methodology and intervention research were employed. The study was conducted through six group meetings with adult women, including an initial semi-structured interview, four literature-focused group sessions based on the work Women Who Run with the Wolves by author Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and a final meeting for group listening and feedback, with the purpose of evaluating the participants’ perspectives on the potential of literature in the elaboration of grief and concluding the group process. The results indicated several categories of grief, including grief related to the dissolution of the marital bond, the abused body, unfulfilled dreams, losses due to death, and abortion. The data were analyzed and discussed in light of psychoanalysis. The group proved to be a space for deeper understanding of grief and shared experiences. Thus, the group and literary experience was shown to be a space of psychic containment and symbolic reparation, allowing the subjective time of grief to emerge without haste and with attentive listening. As a result of the intervention research, a group-based grief care protocol was developed, constituting a technical and technological product to be replicated in women’s health care, in either online or in-person formats.