Project re-historian lives: internship in legal psychology and its challenges in the prison system

Abstract

This article reports the realization of the project Re-Historiando lives, in the area of legal psychology. The project was developed over six meetings at the Presidio Nilton Gonçalves, in the municipality of Vitoria da Conquista, and aimed to promote through the meeting with the group the reflection the resignification of the life narratives of the interns of the Laborative module. As a methodological strategy, an adaptation of the dynamics of the Tree of life was used, encompassing themes that addressed life as a combination of past experiences, of the present and of the goals and dreams for the future. In general, the project was evaluated as satisfactory and relevant in that space, since it promoted the reflection on the most diverse themes, the group interaction, helped in the detachment of the subjects of their "problems", worked with the construction of Life projects with the interns, rethinking the possibilities, difficulties and desires of the group participants and contributed to the resignification of the life histories of the interns.

Keywords: Legal psychology; prison system; resignifying.