El amor en la salud y en la enfermedad Narrativas resilientes en una pareja de jóvenes adultos en torno a la experiencia de un diagnóstico de cáncer en uno de sus miembros

Abstract

The main interest of this research / intervention was to understand the narrative construction of the cancer experience in a young adult couple, making it possible to reconstruct them from resilient processes, the foregoing arises as a result of the theoretical review carried out for this work, as a investigative shortage around this stage of the life cycle. The disciplinary categories were: narrative construction of the cancer experience, resilience and, couple and life cycle, based on systemic constructivist and constructionist epistemological and paradigmatic bases and complexity, based on which a second-order qualitative methodology was defined; where it deepened in a case study, with a young adult couple between 27 and 31 years of age, where one of its members was diagnosed with cancer. Four reflective conversational scenarios were developed, using different narrative techniques, to then carry out a content analysis by categories. In this way, it was found that for this couple, cancer was initially positioned from dominant stories as a synonym of death, that is, that they developed poor narratives around it; questioned its appearance and the meaning of life and family, as it is a non-normative event within its stage of the life cycle. Hence, thanks to the conversational scenarios constructed, the narrative reconstruction and co-construction of this experience has been made possible, recognizing the capacities and resources they possessed to emerge strengthened from this situation (resilient narratives), through narrative deconstruction.