Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem (Apr 2004)

Production of the Sense of Religiosity in the Territory of the Life: Understanding of the Suffering Production of the Sense of Religiosity in the Territory of the Life: Understanding of the Suffering

  • Renata Ferreira Cerqueira

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 125 – 127

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We are part of a group of people that believes that the popular classes have anaccumulated knowledge and, in that way, they produce knowledge, building an own knowledge,in its daily experiences. The Department of Endemias Samuel Pessoa (DENSP) of SaúdePública/Fiocruz's National School it develops the line of research Education, Health andCitizenship. This research line involves a series of referring studies to the knowledge and the We are part of a group of people that believes that the popular classes have anaccumulated knowledge and, in that way, they produce knowledge, building an own knowledge,in its daily experiences. The Department of Endemias Samuel Pessoa (DENSP) of SaúdePública/Fiocruz's National School it develops the line of research Education, Health andCitizenship. This research line involves a series of referring studies to the knowledge and the popular knowledge: its practices of health and its speech in the construction in differentiatedways of access to the basic net of health. One of the researches that comes being worked it isthe Popular Religiosity and Health, while practice developed by the popular classes to work withthe diffuse suffering. The study in subject analyzes the relationship between the psychicsuffering and the religiosity evangelical pentecostal, just as shows in the practice of a serviceterritorializado of mental health. The therapeutic searches elaborated by the people withpsychiatric upset are nourished by its world vision and for the hope of finding the cure for thepsychic suffering. The study left of a service of daily attention of the city of Rio de Janeiro.Inside of the precepts of the Psychiatric Reform, it is a service territorializado of mental health,where people with psychic upset make treatment with base in the rehabilitation psicossocial.The customers spend the day in that unit, where they participate in groups, shops, benefit of thecoexistence with other people. My insert in that service is as nurse of the team of rehabilitationpsicossocial. In that course, the church pentecostal exercises a strong influence for that sensesearch and of reception. Leaving of those facts is that began our understanding process on thepsychic suffering and like him it is defined in the church pentecostal. Looking for thatunderstanding starting from the perspective of the health, we believed in a knowledge that canbe shared with the popular classes, as form of we build new you know and practices to workwith the suffering. We hoped to contribute for the understanding of the psychic suffering throughanother prism, which the expressed religiosity the world vision and the expectations for a betterlife quality. The study allowed that could observe that the religious space facilitates theconstruction of an identity that can be accepted by the society. The people hope to minimize thesuffering caused through by the psychic upset of that space of faith and significance.

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