Banca de DEFESA: KLESSYO DO ESPIRITO SANTO FREIRE

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STUDENT : KLESSYO DO ESPIRITO SANTO FREIRE
DATE: 06/11/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/cua-rfwz-quw
TITLE:

Semiosis and life space: an analysis of psychic suffering in university students

KEY WORDS:

Higher Education; university students; Cultural Semiotic Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychopathology.

PAGES: 176
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

The literature considers high education as a critical period in developmental transitions. The higher students' perceptions of themselves and the world changed during this period. Considering this question, several studies in many countries found a hugger prevalence of mental disorders in this population. In many cases, the prevalence is higher than the general population. In most cases, these studies work from a quantitative perspective and try to make the correlation between variables of personal life and university life. In addition, these studies utilize a Cartesian, linear, cause-and-effect paradigm to comprehend what is a mental disorder. This perspective explains the cause of mental disorders related to a problem of the individual or social aspects. Tis study adopted the framework of Cultural Semiotic Psychology in dialogue with the concept of semiosis in Biosemiotics, the Field Theory of Kurt Lewin and the Husserl phenomenological perspective of knowledge in the first person to build a model to comprehend psychic suffering. This model utilizes a dynamic and bidirectional conception to understand the relationship between the person and the environment. This model also explains how the affective process participates in the semiotic regulation system to produce meanings. In this perspective, psychic suffering is a mode of semiosis in which superordinate meanings (concept of the Two-stage semiotic model) encourage the emergence of hypergneralized semiotic-affective meaning fields that bring consequences in the relationship between the person and the environment. This question echoes in individuals who have difficulty managing the borders of their life space. In this way, this study's primary objective is to comprehend the semiosis and life space in university students in situations of psychic suffering. Thus, the research design utilized in this study is the idiographic and phenomenological one. A semi-structured interview with three students who attended a psychological support online project were carried on. The main results show that the hipergeneralized semiotic-affective meaning fields is related to the personal identity in psychic suffering of students. This issue was linked to significant aspects of the environment and the personal trajectory catalyzed by the university context. In this way, this study concluded that the adoption of business management by the universities in the last twenty years, the lack of space for human relationships in universities, could participate in the meaning-making process in psychic suffering of university students. Another point that this research discusses is the possibility of a biomedical paradigm popularized in society and the discussion of universities producing mental diseases involved in interpreting a malaise of university students occurring through psychopathological signs and crystalizing particular meanings about the personal aspects and world. Finally, the study concludes with the applications of Semiotic Cultural Psychology through the model proposed in this research in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology. In addition, the importance of expanding psychological care for university students in Brazil was discussed, especially in public universities, and the need to rethink productivism and management through business models in higher education institutions.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - MIGUEL MAHFOUD - UFMG
Presidente - 3012885 - GIUSEPPINA MARSICO
Externo à Instituição - RAMON CERQUEIRA GOMES - IFBA
Externa à Instituição - VERONICA GOMES NASCIMENTO - F.M.Nassau
Externa ao Programa - ***.457.985-** - VIVIAN VOLKMER PONTES - UFBA