Psicossomática e graça: um chamado à reflexão sobre a relação saúde e espiritualidade

Abstract

Religion does not belong only in academic colloquies, in which the relation between Science and Religion is often discussed as an experience far from human daily life. Understanding Homo religious and its modus vivendi is a challenge in our days. One must recognize in religion an important instance of resignification and order of life, of its setbacks and suffering”. Although religion is a most complex object of investigation, and the relationship between physical health and religion being systematically studied since the beginning of the twentieth century, medical research increasingly point to the relevance of spirituality in the most crucial moments of existence, when mourning, incapacitation, serious illness or death knock on the door of a life story. Therefore, the Religion phenomenon has its interdisciplinarity with theology, psychopathology, psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology and sociology of religion. Although paradoxical and ambiguous in its influence, it is probably the oldest and most enduring institution in human history, present in the most diverse cultures. In the conception of psychiatrist Lotufo Neto, “religious beliefs can generate peace, self-confidence and a sense of purpose in life - or the opposite: guilt, depression and doubts”. Hence, in an attempt to respond to a call for reflection between health (physical, emotional and mental) and spirituality, the objective is to deepen knowledge about Psychosomatics, where the human body is viewed objectively and subjectively in a compound unit and considered to its corporeity – a web of relationships that mark the physical body with itself and the outside world. From the intertwining observed in Psychosomatics, to seek in the theology of Grace - “the best gift of Christianity to the world” - the founding resource in the praxis of psychosomatic diseases treatment and in its relationship with spirituality.