Construcción narrativa de la experiencia de abandono en un adulto mayor institucionalizado

Abstract

The following writing was based on the research line “psychology, family and human systems” with the final purpose of understand de way that an older adult builds, describes and explains his reality of institutionalization and abandonment through the communication and co-construction of the experience that have had along his life, aiming to propitiate the emergency of alternate narratives that allow him to reorganize his experience meanings. By the other hand, the paradigmatical and epistemological foundations that organize this investigation/intervention was the systemic theory, the complex perspective, secondorder cybernetics, social constructionism and language ontology, in which the experience is understood as a progressive social construction where the integrating understandings are included accepting the changing possibility starting by the generated accounts; thus, the methodology used was the second-order qualitative research in which were presents four reflective conversational scenarios through a case study. Taking into account that the following thesis do not only seeks to understand how the experience is shown but the way how is reconfigured through the narrative intervention the different analysis categories, narrative experience construction of abandonment and institutionalization; it was crossed by the understanding of alternate and emerging narratives present in the conversation, with the purpose of recognize the dominant narratives and the different situation that allow the experience significance and to make visible new speeches that consolidate alternate narratives.