The strategy presented here, called Analytical of ambiguity, is linked to the need for understanding of findings in research based on Merleau-pontyan phenomenology. It was hinged from the study of experiential descriptions of ten family members, components of a Mutual Help Group for caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease, conducted at a university in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Such descriptions have shown themselves through interviews based on interbody experience, during the construction of a Doctoral Dissertation in Nursing. The application of analytical of ambiguity to the cited study is consistent with other similar studies and opens up possibilities for the understanding of the findings in phenomenological researches, specifically those based on the experience ontology of Merleau-Ponty, for recognizing consciousness as something inapprehensible and the perception, always, as an ambiguous process.
Philosophy, nursing; Caregivers; Alzheimer disease