MONTEZI, A. V. O futuro do adolescente abrigado no imaginário coletivo de psicólogos [The future of adolescents in foster care within the collective imaginary of psychologists]. Doctoral Thesis – USP. São Paulo (SP), 2016.
Available on: doi: <10.11606/T.47.2016.tde-10112016-154432>
This research intends to study the future of adolescents in foster care within the collective imaginary of psychologists. The study can contribute to the debate over the conduction of the victims of social suffering to foster care shelters by addressing a professional group aware of the importance of adolescence during the personal life. This approach consists, from the methodological point of view, in structured interviews conducted with eight psychologists using the Thematic Drawing-and-Story Procedure. Such meetings were registered under the form of transferential narratives, which, along with the drawings and the stories, were considered through the psychoanalytic method. This way, it was possible to reach the interpretative production of three affective-emotional meaning fields or relative unconsciousness: Bound to fail, Saved by Magic and With help and will. The general framework reveals a trend of the participants to consider that the sheltered adolescent will hardly come off from a miserable future. Thus, it is clear that these professionals position themselves critically to the foster care shelter reality, conceiving them as institutions that are not able to fulfill their social function satisfactorily.