PRODUCTION OF MEANINGS IN A REFLEXIVE GROUP FOR MALE PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the scenario of production of meanings in a reflexive group for men who committed conjugal violence: the positioning, difficulties and effects the group has in its different actors — men and facilitators. For this, 10 sessions of participative observation were made, being reported on a field journal, as well as semi-structured interviews with two group members and the conductive professionals. Generally, the group has shown itself to be propitious for the production, circulation and update of discursive repertoires on the gender violence phenomena. However, these discursive movements do not happen in a homogeneous form, nor without struggles and tensions. The fieldwork and the data from the interview revealed difficulties of different orders: operational/ methodological, institutional/bureaucratic, but, above all, on the professional/men bond as it is sustained by a fragile “judicial agreement”.