Concepções e itinerários em casos de tentativa de suicídio

Abstract

The present study had as objective: to analyze the itineraries, therapeutic or not, in cases of suicide attempts in the municipality of Sobral - CE. The goals were: to present the main conceptions found in the literature on suicide; to know the itineraries of subjects who tried to commit suicide, attribute some function to primary health care in their course; discuss the conceptions of suicide and the subjects' itineraries in the light of the theoretical anthropology of health. It was an exploratory qualitative approach in which the study of three cases of suicide attempt was carried out. As criteria of choice of the cases were considered the risk factors of suicide pointed out in the literature identified on the Suicide Attempted County. In order to reconstruct the subjects' pathways in the selected cases, applied to the narrative interview, according to Schütze's proposal. The interviewees linked the suicide attempt to a way of ending suffering. All also spoke about perceptions of moral condemnation regarding suicide. None of the interviewees did, in their free initial narrative, an association between his suicide attempt and any health issue. The itineraries were well in all three cases. The itineraries that started from the suicide attempt expressed a secondary place in the interviewees' narratives. The interviewees they stopped talking about their suffering and what they sought from it. There was a highlight of the search for therapeutic resources by their relatives. The informants referred to the use of therapeutic resources of the professional system and informal, but did not report search for the popular system.