O grupo como estratégia de sobrevivência: configurações vinculares de crianças na favela

Abstract

This research seeked to understand, through clinic qualitative method and participant observation, the link configurations engendered by children, who attended the Communitarian School and who lived in the slum of Pirambu, located in Fortaleza, Ceará. The study of its contents was based on groupanalysis and, more specifically, winnicott's ideas concerning to: a) the group as transicional and potential space; and b)the objection-social tendency. The scholar group and the bigger social body of Pirambu, where the Project of Mental Health four sticks were established, shaped as universes that reactivated primordial ambits of motherly holding related to the physics structure and affective support again. Friends, teachers and communitarians appeared to have instigating transition in the space that transformed itself in joyful and therapeutic because it propitiates creation and reciprocality. I observed the group reconstructed affections and preserved for itself a grateful human possibility of new restructure.