Polishing stories of life: an ethnographic approach of egresses in a psychiatric hospital

The research aims to understand the meaning the mental disease sufferers give to their disorder and to the psyquiatric deinstitutionalization. It is an ethnographic study. The context is Campina Grande in the State of Paraíba and the participants are withdrawn from a psychiatric hospital. For data c...

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Main Authors: Hudson Pires de Oliveira Santos Junior, Dulce Maria Rosa Gualda, Maria de Fátima de Araújo Silveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa 2009-04-01
Series:Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing
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Online Access:http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/2144