Grupos psicoterapêuticos com pacientes oncológicos e acompanhantes: um espaço para ser, estar e se relacionar

Abstract

The psychotherapeutic group is a very effective psychological activity that benefits its participants. Thus, this work proposes to present my experiences and perceptions as a resident psychologist, who coordinated psychotherapeutic groups with cancer patients and their companions, in an outpatient treatment scheme in a teaching hospital. I participated in 38 groups during the period from February to December 2019. Referring myself theoretically and methodologically to the Narrative Research (Clandinin & Connelly, 2015), I studied the stories narrated by the participants in the group, understanding the narrative as the best way to symbolize and apprehend the experience. The narrative investigation takes place in a three-dimensional space constituted by the essential characteristics of the experience: temporality; the interaction between personal and social; and the notion of specific situation and/or place. Analyzing my field texts narratively, the groups emerged as an important space of listening, welcoming and reflecting, which allowed the members to be, be and relate in the meetings.