Uma multidão de pessoas sós: narrativas de adoecimento e acolhimento na universidade, a partir de grupos terapêuticos

Abstract

This master's dissertation deals with the process of an illness classified as psychiatric and of care with university students, identified through its narratives, specifically, in two therapeutic groups with distinct proposals, in two universities present in Fortaleza (CE), Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR). The main objective is to show what factors contribute to the sickness of these university students and how the activities of the therapeutic groups studied act on the suffering narrated and lived. By reflecting on the conditions of knowledge production present in higher education and the narratives of the interlocutors in this research, I reflect on the various possibilities of being a university student. I argue that the adoption of a frozen student identity, based on a profile adept to late capitalism, prevents the metamorphosis of the students' identity, thus failing to recognize the real demands and potentialities present in their trajectories. Finally, I analyze how the recognition and reception of narratives can contribute to the construction and reconstruction of identities and well-being in the academy.