Luto dos familiares sobreviventes ao suicídio: uma reflexão sobre atuação do psicólogo na clínica psicanalítica

Abstract

Suicide is a serious public health problem and, as well as talking about prevention, it is equally important to offer care to surviving family members who are facing this grieving process, taking their specificities into account. Despite the importance of the subject, there are few studies in the psychoanalytic literature dealing with clinical practices with these bereaved individuals. In view of this, the aim of this research was to investigate how psychologists work in psychoanalytic clinics with the particularities of the bereavement of family members who have survived suicide, considering the theoretical foundations of Lacanian psychoanalysis. To this end, a narrative review was adopted, understanding mourning as a normal process in the face of a loss that takes on its own temporality, requiring time to complete. In addition, guilt and stigma are factors that make it difficult to deal with grief, which often becomes solitary and silenced suffering. In this way, the research sought to identify and discuss theoretical and practical aspects that help not only psychoanalysts, but also clinical psychologists, in their interventions and welcoming practices in the clinic with surviving family members.