Saúde mental e relações familiares: experiências de convívio com a mediunidade espírita
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2021-03-29
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Universidade Católica do Salvador
Abstract
The general objective of this qualitative research is to study the challenges in family
relationships faced by spiritist mediums, especially those whose relatives do not
share their beliefs. Through two case studies carried out with mediums experienced
in the exercise of their faculties, inhabitants of the city of Salvador, Bahia, and
volunteer workers of a traditional Spiritist Center in the city, we collected, through
semi-structured interviews, information about family life with relatives who do not
share the same faith. The study proposes to address everything from the domestic
reception of the mediums' first spiritual experiences, to the conflicts, perceptions and
possibilities of interpreting them through the spiritual, theological and mental health
paths. In this research we seek to study mediumship looking both at the ways of
managing the spiritual experience of the mediums themselves and at the meanings
attributed by the family to such experience. For this, we use not only current research
in the area of Mental Health that seeks to better understand the phenomenon of
mediumship / anomalous experiences, but also bibliographical references in the area
of Psychology and the Family to understand the role of the family core belief system.
about the medium and its consequences. After the meetings held with the mediums,
there was a broad parental perspective that involves not only those with whom they
have descendant bonds, but also with invisible beings, the spirits, who, according to
the interviewees, would have blood ties with them in past reincarnations, which also
became an important aspect of the work. The lack of family embracement of the
spiritual experiences lived brought conflict and mental suffering to the participants,
which was solved only when they found meaning for the phenomena in Spiritism.
Domestic ruptures were also observed, with the consequent separation of its
members. In addition, attempts to seek an understanding of mediumship in the
biomedical field, in psychopathology and in other religious approaches were
abandoned.
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Psicopatologia, Mediunidade, Saúde mental, Relações familiares, Psychopathology, Mediumship, Mental health, Family relationships