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MAIA, Gabriela Felten da; CASTRO, Graciele Dotto  e  JORDAO, Aline Bedin. Ampliando a clínica com idosos institucionalizados. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.1, pp. 193-210. ISSN 1518-6148.

This article contemplate an account of an experiment conducted over three-year with old people resident in an elderly home care. From entering the institution and the critical analysis about the symbolic place occupied by residents in the dynamics of institutional operation, to emerge the need to revise the understanding of the aging process in contemporary society, particularly with regarding to institutionalized elderly, as well as review the modality of psychological treatments to the demands of this population. Thus, intended to provide reception space for emerging forms of subjectivity in this place, deconstructing hegemonic forms of listening and looking at old age, and revise the existing modes of care for these individuals. Proposed the construction and expansion of devices that could favor the expression of desires and singularities of these old (extended clinic), through the creation of individual and collective reception spaces with the intend to offer a differentiated listening to the suffering and forms of emerging subjectivity. Observe the institution as a differentiated niche of experience, which experience other forms of activities that evoke on other power of old age, indicated the necessity and importance of to delineate other devices, practices, knowledge and procedures for the creation of therapeutic spaces. Therefore, the intervention had an experimental character, in the since of let it affect and be affected by, in seeking to weave together with residents of the asylum networks that enable the creation of new directions and new existence territory.

Palavras-chave : Aging; Production of subjectivity; Institutions; Extended clinic; Psychology.

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