Anchored on psychoanalysis and on the concept of social support, this paper aims to explore the psychic repercussions of the illness of women with breast cancer and the reintegration potential by the Support Group. The results point to the strengthening of the women’s psychosomatic defenses, by means of the ties created in the Group, regarded as a space that promotes holding, by providing social support, sharing of feelings and better psychological and somatic integration, making social reintegration and the confrontation of the disease possible.
Support group; breast neoplasia; psychic trauma; psychosocial factors