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  • The meaning of life after a suicide attempt
    Publication . Alves, Andréa Cristina; Cunha, Isadora Manfrinato; dos Santos, Manoel Antônio; Miasso, Adriana Inocenti; Zanetti, Ana Carolina Guidorizzi; Carvalho, José Carlos; Vedana, Kelly Graziani Giacchero
    Introduction: Understanding the meaning of life after a suicide attempt experience provides greater knowledge about the process of resignification, connections and commitment to life, which can be useful in different therapeutic approaches. Objective: Understand the meaning of life after a suicide attempt. Method: Qualitative study with eight Brazilian adults assisted in mental health service. The data were collected in 2018 by semi-strutured interviews and group meetings that used artistic resources to facilitate expression.The Symbolic Interactionism was the theoretical reference used and the data were submitted to thematic analysis. Results: Three themes were identified: “Searches in the affective, relational and spiritual field” (manifestations of affection, zeal, understanding and welcome and seemed to increase the link and commitment to life, as well as the openness to resignify it); “Life and the constancy of impermanence” (life as an alternation between weakness and strength, crisis and well-being, problems and overcoming); and “Discoveries and relationship with one's own self” (a self previously self-destructive could be resigned as capable of overcoming, resisting and developing resilience). Conclusions: The study provides important insights to be addressed in clinical practice, in the protocol design, institutional policies, as well as in the training of professionals.
  • Finding new meaning through music after a suicide attempt
    Publication . Alves, Andréa Cristina; Pereira, Camila Corrêa Matias; Ribeiro, Maria Inês Lemos Coelho; Almeida, Aline Siqueira de; Carvalho, José Carlos; Vedana, Kelly Graziani Giacchero
    Listening to music can trigger unpleasant feelings or bring meaning to our lives, both from the cognitive and psychic perspectives. Thus, music can attribute meanings to our personal experiences and act as a regulator of emotions when living these experiences.Songlyrics can often influence behaviours while helping to work on processes of resilience, autonomy, empowerment, and psychosocial rehabilitation.This study aims to analyse the possibilities of music in the process of resignification of life through the discursive productions of individuals after a suicide attempt.A qualitative study was conducted with eight Brazilian adults assisted in a mental health service,in 2018, through semi-structured interviews.The Symbolic Interactionism theoretical framework was used, and the data weresubmitted for thematic analysis.Three categories were identified: ‘Spirituality as an empowering agent’;‘Sense of belonging and identification’, and ‘The importance of music as a sensitizer of reasons for living and an instrument of verbalization of feelings.The study provides important findings that merit further investigation regarding interventions and possibilities related to music as a healing method in the process of resignification oflife after a suicide attempt