Plantão psicológico : proposta de (im) plantação numa comunidade religiosa

Abstract

Religious community is a place of collective celebration to worship God. Although this place welcomes people in existential crisis, often, this human experience is not shared among its peers. This suffering, as proper to the human condition and its way of being in the world, is enhanced by unexpressed tensions. The person does not feel confident to open up about himself. With the objective of offering a time space of expression, understanding and meaning to this experience, this study bases a proposal for the implementation of a Psychological Duty service in this community. First, it describes Psychological Duty and its possibility of reaching the people of the Adventist Church of Promise that the author is part of, especially, socially vulnerable ones. In the second moment, it presents the origins of the Psychological Duty, its Existential Phenomenological foundation, and its growth in Brazil. Next, it presents an understanding of social vulnerability and its psychological impacts. At this point, one finds again the social commitment of the religious community. Psychological Duty offers psychological care corresponding to the demands of people in psychological distress. This is also the meaning of the religious community. Its ethical commitment to acting and service in this community is to offer attentive listening in the deconstruction of fixed identity marks limiting human expressiveness.