Rituals of death, cancer and support systems

Abstract

This article is the result of qualitative research work of the research - intervention type, contextual, reflexive and phenomenological focus of second order was carried out. Also, in this research, the case study technique is used, of ¿How do the dominant narratives of culture, around life and death, influence the transit rituals of families and support systems? In the study, interventions in psychotherapy and systemic consulting were carried out; three families were taken into account and the support systems of the Unidad Oncológica de la Liga Contra el Cáncer Huila , where life and death stories, influenced by dominant narratives of culture, act as negative form, in links of families and support systems, making it an even more painful transit ritual and that, systemically addressed, allow the mobilization, transformation, and the rescue of their autonomy, within the found findings, it was identified that the narratives they have a direct influence of family histories, cultural influences and build disruptive narratives that allow suffering to emerge, another interesting finding, shows that in the relationship of the individual, his family and the support systems, suffering is assumed in a better way if the ignorance about the details of the disease is maintained, this situation can be understood and given another meaning as a therapeutic act, to strengthen the relationship of help between family and clinical contexts, the scientific impact of the project is to obtain findings that allow answering questions about the meanings, histories and resources of families, understanding it, ecosystemically from the psychosocial health.