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Health Psychology under ontological turn: support to medical training in Palliative Care

Health Psychology under “ontological turn”; Medical Training; Palliative Care

The readers will find in this work a renovated Health Psychology, far from a humanism that is centralized in humans. This work is developed as a support to Palliative Care (PC) in Research Line 1: Clinical Practices and Mental Health of the Health Psychology Post Graduation Program of the Multidisciplinary Health Institute of Federal University of Bahia (PPGPSIMS/UFBA), oriented by professor Paulo Rogers S. Ferreira, PHD. This work has as a final product an workshop named Experience-pedagogical workshop for medical training: how to connect with the world in Palliative Care. Is is centralized in the ontological turn perspective, which contests the modern science division into nature X culture and subject X object and comprehend the actions in the world as mediations among all the actors, human and non-human. This work is divided into three chapters. The first one is a theoretical article named The transformation of the technical apparatus in Palliative Care (PC), which introduces the transformation of the inanimate technical apparatus (ICU and ICC equipments, sofas, bedrooms, etc) in animated support equipments, in Palliative Care. The analisys was oriented by Gilbert Simondon. The second chapter is a result of an empirical study, an article named Health Psychology under ontological turn: support to medical training in Palliative Care. It comprehends the medical training in Palliative Care in Medicine Graduation of the Multidisciplinary Health Institute of Federal University of Bahia (IMS/UFBA) specially how is the focus to the technical apparatus. The results concluded that the professors and students constantly work with the technical apparatus but do not recognize its participation (anima) as mediators of the Palliative Care process. In the last chapter it is proposed a product, which is a requirement os the Professional Masters Degree and is named Experience-pedagogical workshop for medical training: how to connect with the world in Palliative Care and allows the sensibility about the participation of the technical apparatus in the PC. This research was approved by the Ethical Commitee in Research with Humans of the Multidisciplinary Health Institute of Federal University of Bahia (CEP-IMS/UFBA) by authorization nº 5.935.129.