“Hurt and helpless”: experience of COVID-19 mourners

Objective: to investigate the experience of mourning the death of people infected by COVID-19 in media publications. Methods: qualitative research, using concrete psychoanalytic psychology, in the study of reports from mourners, between March and May 2020, via Google. Results: Eight news reports and...

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Autores: Simões, Cristiane Helena Dias, Almeida da Silva, Gustavo Renan, Américo Ribas, Mayara de Souza, Américo Ribas, Thaís, Aiello-Vaisberg, Tânia Maria José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Triangulo Mineiro (UFTM)
Repositorio:Revista Família, Ciclos de Vida e Saúde no Contexto Social
Idioma:portugués
inglés
español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/6616
Acceso en línea:https://seer.uftm.edu.br/revistaeletronica/index.php/refacs/article/view/6616
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bereavement
Mental Health
Psychoanalysis
Aflicción
Salud Mental
Psicoanálisis
Luto
Saúde mental
Psicanálise
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Sumario:Objective: to investigate the experience of mourning the death of people infected by COVID-19 in media publications. Methods: qualitative research, using concrete psychoanalytic psychology, in the study of reports from mourners, between March and May 2020, via Google. Results: Eight news reports and 13 personal accounts were listed, with impactful themes of loss of emotionally significant people who died due to COVID-19 or suspected of it. The psychoanalytic consideration of the material allowed the creation/finding of five categories of affective-emotional meaning, “Pain of loss”, “Pain of separation”, “Pain of neglect”, “Revealing the truth” and “Hurt and helpless”. Conclusion: the mourners experienced a double suffering in the COVID-19 pandemic, both for the loss of loved ones and for feeling socially neglected, including by government authorities, but, of these, few demonstrate awareness of negligence in the context of public health, demanding better social conditions.