Projeto Aluno Amigo: psicopatologia, loucura e a formação do psicólogo

Abstract

This work is a study that covers the General Psychopathology II Course Practice of the Psychology Course at the Psychology Institute /Uberlândia Federal University. Students in the seventh semester, in the majority, have been participating in the Student Friend Project. The project consists in each student, during the semester, visiting daily a patient hospitalized, from admission to discharge (approximately 18 days) in the Psychiatric Ward of the Clinical Hospital Uberlândia Federal University. This experience together with the debates in classroom made investigations on the teaching and learning of Psychopathology in the Course of Psychology emerge. A Qualitive Research using the Interpretive Method was then made up. Semi-structured interviews were performed with students who had already participated in the project as well as observations of the experiences and research in reports evaluated at the end of the semester. The study concludes that is quite complex to teach psychopathology this day in age, in a moment of scientific paradigmatic changes and in the context of Psychiatric Reform and Anti-asylum Struggle. The being, the passion or pathos emerges, made possible by the intersubjective and inter-institutional personal relations and through the art of teaching and art of learning insanity, here in a training called the Learning-Art.