Abstract

LUCINI, Thaís Caroline Guedes  and  RIETH, Carmen Esther. Between missing and cosiness: Memory Box as a support in the grief process. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2022, vol.25, n.1, pp. 56-68. ISSN 1516-0858.  http://dx.doi.org/10.57167/Rev-SBPH.v25.028.

The grief of parents who have lost newborn children is a process of great pain and suffering, especially due to the short life span they had together. The aim of this study is to analyze whether the Memory Box influenced the grieving process of the couple who lost their child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). For this, a single case study was carried out, in situational mode with a couple, with whom an in-depth interview was conducted. The interview was recorded and transcribed in full, being analyzed based on the assumptions of Minayo (2014). From the analysis, three categories emerged, which are: Waiting for Pedrinho, his premature arrival and being a father and mother at the NICU; The departure of Pedrinho; and the warmth of reminding him from the Memory Box. From the results it was possible to perceive that a box of memories has positively influenced the mourning process of the interviewees in different ways, making it evident how much the possibility of resorting to the real objects used by the son help in narrating and proving the real existence of this son to people who could not know him, proving the concreteness of his life.

Keywords : mourning; humanization; memory box; neonatal intensive care unit; psychology.

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