Abstract
to understand the perception of drug users about "being a family" in the context of their psychosocial rehabilitation. based on the theoretical-philosophical reference of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It was carried out with eleven users of the Center for Psychosocial Care Alcohol and other Drugs (CAPS AD) in a municipality in the South of Bahia, Brazil, through the Focal Group, in August 2015. The resulting material was submitted to the Ambiguity Analytical Technique. the readings of the descriptions allowed the definition of the thematic category: Nuances of being family: materialist and existential view. the results of the study converged to the understanding that the user of alcohol and other drugs recognizes the "being a family" from two dimensions: a more materialistic, and an existentialist, which need to be considered in the process of psychosocial rehabilitation of this user.
Highlights
Seen as an open system that has its own identity and multidirectional communication(1), is a care unit with dynamic and complex organization whose members are largely influenced by the economic, political and social structure in which it is inserted
The choice occurred from the need to develop studies that reveal new possibilities to look at the process of psychosocial rehabilitation proposed in this field, because the increase in the implantation of this type of service does not correspond to the number of publications, which, besides being insufficient, are concentrated in the postgraduate centers spread throughout the country(14)
This article, which aims to understand the perception of drug users about “being a family” in the context of their psychosocial rehabilitation, revealed that any attempt by participants to objectify what it is to be a family was insufficient to express the meaning of the experience
Summary
Seen as an open system that has its own identity and multidirectional communication(1), is a care unit with dynamic and complex organization whose members are largely influenced by the economic, political and social structure in which it is inserted. In the midst of so many changes that the family has been suffering, scholars have come to see it as an object of study in the various areas of knowledge; such as psychology, sociology, anthropology and health; since it is one of the social devices in which human interrelations can be understood, in their nuances and micropolitical unfoldings, established by affective relationships and power among their members. This perspective leads us to the understanding of the family as a dynamic, complex, global, diverse and unique social structure, among other aspects that characterize its multidimensionality and surpass the definitions associated to consanguinity and affinity(5)
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