Abstract
The family institution has been characterized by a plurality of configurations and constant transformations in the ways of reflection about it. In Psychology training, a dialogue about different family possibilities becomes necessary, because this institution constitutes one of the pillars of the psychological life of people and societies. This study reports an experience of collective creation of space and time to dialogue with beginning Psychology students about families, after commercial films portraying them have been exhibited. Sixteen students enrolled in a public university in the countryside of Minas Gerais participated in the study. The research team was composed of three psychologists. Nine weekly meetings were held, with a duration of approximately 3 hours each, using as a data collection strategy teaching-learning operative groups and commercial films as triggering resources for dialogues. The meetings were audiographed and transcribed in full. The results were analyzed through group emergents and interpreted in the light of the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis, especially papers from Latin American authors who study families. Five dialogue axes were observed: families formed by same-sex couples; single-parent households; families with adopted children; extended/enlarged families; and recaptured/reassessed families. The results evidenced the importance of the teaching-learning operative group as a resource to be used in the training environment of psychologists, for a dialogical and experienced construction of knowledge about the family institution, its potential and limits.
Keywords:
Family; Familiar Life; Higher Education; Operative Group