Do veneno à instiga, da dependência à recuperação: a espacialidade de tratamento de dependência química e a elaboração de identidades dos meninos em tratamento na Comunidade Terapêutica Marcos Fernandes Pinheiro, Ponta Grossa – PR

Abstract

This dissertation is based on the following question: How are the identities of the boys that constitute the spatiality of the Marcos Fernandes Pinheiro Therapeutic Community in Ponta Grossa - PR elaborated from the experience of chemical dependency treatment? In order to respond to the present questioning, eight interviews were performed with the boys under treatment in the Marcos Fernandes Pinheiro Therapeutic Community in the city of Ponta Grossa, PR, in the period of April and May of 2016. For the systematization and analysis of the data resultant from the interviews, the methodology used is based on Bardin (1977), with the Discourse Content Analysis proposal. From this analysis, we highlight the semantic axis signified by discursive spatiality related to the temporalities which the boys refer to in their reports of experiences that, notwithstanding, are singular and specific to each one. The use of psychoactive substances (PAS) is related to the intensification of the condition of social and spatial marginalization of the boys who collaborate with this research as subjects researched, as well as a practice of resistance to this marginalization. The chemical dependency treatment thus becomes a fundamental element in the change of this dynamic, in order to relate directly to the identity development of the boys, that is to say, to their spatial experiences that occur daily. Therefore, this work establishes a link between the empirical, through the reports of the boys in treatment, and Geographic Science, in the sense of exploring the intangible, the invisible and the ephemeral, as proposed by Nogué and Roméro (2006).