INTERACTIONAL PROCESSES IN CONTEXT: COUPLES,  FAMILIES, GROUPS AND COMUNITIES

The research projects of this research line focus on interactional and therapeutic processes of couples,  families, groups and comunities.  The theoretical approaches include but are not limited to the following perspectives: Systemic Theory, Sistemic Feminist Theories, Gender and Feminist Theories, Psychodramatic Approach, Complexity Theories, Constructivism and Social Construcionism. The research projects explore themes and raise questions around several relevant themes: contemporary conjugalities and the multiple forms of being a family in today´s society; the presence of marital and domestic violence; of sexual abuse of children and adolescents; the Family dynamics present in drug addiction contexts.


PSYCHOANALISES, SUBJECTIVITY AND CULTURE

This research perspective proposes a psychoanalitical refletion about the constitution of the subject as processual and imbricated, in an indissociated level, to culture. Psychoanalisis is viewed and problematized as a clinical practice  and as a process of construction of subjectivity, given the singularity of each subject, as well as  a theory and critique of culture. The processes of subjectivation in the culture are investigated through a social and historical perspective. It explores questions regarding  cultural productions and their interactions with the theory and the psychoanalitic clinic. It also includes the domains of  history and of the critique of culture, of art and literature.


PSYCHOPATOLOGY, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND LANGUAGE

Locus of the criation of systhematic work in the terrein of psychotherapy, of psychoanalises and of psychopathology.  The commum objective of the projects are the understanding  of the field/area of psychopatology from a phylosofical, psychological, medical, familial and psychoanalitical perspective. The research projects are geared towards the construction of an  integrative knowledge of the realities inherent to the mental health area. The objective is to contemplate the intrapsyquic and the  relacional domains,  the grave acute psyquic sufferings such as psycoses, autisms, personality transtornos, that are present throughout the life cicle, from being a baby to old age.


MENTAL HEALTH AND CULTURE

This research perspective integrates projects geared towards the evaluation, intervention and prevention in the field of  Mental Health. It involves studies of social and cultural phenomena in their relation with  psyquic sufferings and mental health, at the individual, interactional and social levels. The main themes of  study are: assesment of the risks to acquire a  mental disorder and the development and promotion of competences; crises intervention and suicide prevention; gender and subjectivity processes; aging; episthemological and historical questions related to psychotherapy, hipnosis, body, religion and spirituality.  Qualitative and quantitative methodologies are utilized in a clinical perspective.