A violência de fora escancara a violência de dentro: Estudo de caso da chegada de uma família ao ambulatório Para Elas do HC-UFMG/EBSERH.

Abstract

The arrival of the family members of women victims of violence was an unexpected phenomenon that entered the “Para Elas” ambulatory care. The objective of this research was to understand this phenomenon. Which were the factors that trigger the process of searching for “Para Elas” ambulatory care by those people who arrived there as an organized nuclear family? It was proposed a qualitative research with the application of open, semi-structured interviews with a family, chosen for having a greater number of frequent members to the activities of the “Para Elas” ambulatory care, for a long time. The analytical treatment of the data was done through content analysis. The listening of the interviews of all family members lead to common cores among the interviewees' statements, which allowed us to listen to them as a family. We support this analysis in the theoretical contribution on violence by Maria Cecilia de Souza Minayo. The understanding of violence as a phenomenon of previous life experiencev allowed us to perceive the violence that goes through the subject’s and world’s constructions. We also search for the phenomenological concepts of Edith Stein in her understanding of the formation of a person in relation to the community, starting with the first relational community, that is the family. The contribution of Pierpaolo Donati brougth us the concept of family and how family memory and the models inherited and reproduced cross the subject's self -relationship and his other relationships. The relationship of subjects in the social context with drugs, namely the alcohol, was addressed by Jessé de Souza theories. We identified six common categories in all family members interviews : 1. The arrival at the “Para Elas” ambulatory care 2. “ Inside” violence 3. The father's alcoholism, 4. Scarcity of resources, losses and inequality, 5. The silence of women / women silenced and 6. The importance of “ParaElasPara Elas”. The results disclose to us that outside violence opened wide the violence at home. The explicit factor that led the family to search for Para Elas was this violence, in a request for protection and change in the face of this scenario. This family's stay in the outpatient clinic occurred when they perceived a space for welcoming, listening and caring in an integral way, providing a possibility of improvement in the physical and emotional health of each one and in the family relationship. There is something about family violence that is intergenerational, violent family histories tend to repeat themselves, which makes it important to look at victims and aggressors, in the sense of their prevention. The research also points to the importance of the existence of forms of protection for subjects who are victims of discrimination, in public and private life. The outpatient's clinics proposal, to develop the subject's own autonomy and to be a space for collective construction and strengthening, allowed everyone to get more and better information. Through the personal and collective knowledge acquired there, they started to build new personal and relational responses against violence.