Abstract

SEVERINO, Larissa Franco; PEREIRA, Eliane Regina  and  ZANELLA, Andréa Vieira. Group practices with young people promoting good meetings and ethical-political health. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2019, vol.25, n.2, pp. 857-873. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2019v25n2p857-873.

This article aimed to analyze, based on the concept of ethical-political suffering, coined by Sawaia, whether and how group practice enabled the increase of potency of young people’s existence and the promotion of ethicalpolitical health. The study was carried out with youths who enrolled for psychological assistance in a clinical school of a university in the hinterland of Minas Gerais State. After ten reunions, it was possible to perceive the youths’ feelings related to the aspects that permeate their lives and how these aspects increase, decrease, favor or hamper their power to exist. The research results show that group practice increases young people’s potential to act when developing identifications, space to be listened and to utter questions. Furthermore, it turned out to be structured as a space for affections and for the (re)signification of experiences, as well as for the constitution of relationships that extended beyond those reunions.

Keywords : Young; Group practice; Ethical-political suffering; Ethicalpolitical health.

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