Historias de vida de mujeres que participaron en las manifestaciones de octubre 2019 en Quito - Ecuador

Abstract

A Introduction: During October 2019, Ecuador lived eleven days of social mobilizations in rejection of a set of economic measures imposed by the Government of Lenín Moreno. The protest, championed by the indigenous movement, was harshly repressed by state security forces through the excessive use of force. The mobilizations had the massive participation of women, on which the violence and state repression also fell. Materials and methods: This study aims to know the relevance of the application of humanistic psychotherapy in addressing the effects of social violence during the aforementioned mobilizations, for which the qualitative research technique known as Stories of lifetime. In it, the person can, from their own story to the therapist, structure and make sense of the event lived. For this investigation, six women participants of the mobilizations in different roles and spaces, told the author their “Life Stories”, about which, and using the psychotherapeutic tools of Carl Rogers and the existential perspective of Víktor Frankl, Several conclusions. Results: In interviews with women, adaptive primary emotions, physical discomforts, prevalence of feelings of helplessness, helplessness, disorientation, pessimism and rebellion can be detected. Conclusion: The approach from the humanist current is adequate and that the vulnerability of women in contexts of violence does not come from the fact of being a woman, but from the social position in which the patriarchy has placed it.