Imagery Narrative of the Covid-19 Pandemic
What Medical Professors Tell Us?
Authors
Iêda Aleluia - Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública
Dante Gallian - Unifesp - Universidade Federal de São Paulo
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5452-215X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37467/revmedica.v11.5089
Keywords: Images, Covid-19, Pandemic, Medical Humanities, Narratives
Published
2023-11-15
How to Cite
Aleluia, I., & Claramonte Gallian, D. M. (2023). Imagery Narrative of the Covid-19 Pandemic: What Medical Professors Tell Us?. MEDICA REVIEW. International Medical Humanities Review / Revista Internacional De Humanidades Médicas, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.37467/revmedica.v11.5089
Abstract
To work with images is to deal with the primary language of the psyche. Between May 2021 and February 2022, Medical professors were interviewed online. They evoked representative images of the pandemic period and told a story about the pandemic through metaphorical images and memory recreations. The interviews were analyzed by Content Analysis, in a phenomenological approach, seen as metaphors of the time lived by the participants. Twenty-eight professors participated, giving rise to five categories, with images of fear, suffering, hope, nature and learning. The discussion about the pandemic was expanded, anchored in archetypal psychology, proposing another place to think and dialog with health and illness, with life and death, with the uncertainty that permeates the world.
Author Biography
Dante Gallian, Unifesp - Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Professor at Saude Coletiva department
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