Sobre a vida e o viver: uma compreensão arendtiana da experiência de vida atravessada pela hemodiálise

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to understand the experience of chronic renal patients on hemodialysis in view of the psychological attention given to these patients. It is a qualitative research, with an interventional nature, that had as an instrument of investigation the individual and group psychological duty and the logbook of the researcher. The understanding analysis was carried out from the narratives coming from the instrument and revealed two constellations: The sailing and the shipwreck. The sailing refers to the human movement to keep in the time between birth and death, knowing the unpredictability and irreversibility of the river / life. The shipwreck refers to the human movement toward the end of navigation. After the analysis there was a dialogue between the constellations found and the thoughts of Hannah Arendt. In this study it was revealed that the reason why one fights for biological life is the existential life. So just staying alive is not enough for people who need hemodialysis. In this context, it is about the existential life crossed by the substitutive renal therapy that the psychologist listens to.