Healing in both Neo-Pentecostal rituals and psychoanalytic clinics depends on the management of transference, where the religious leader or analyst occupies the symbolic position of the 'Subject Supposed to Know.' This attribution of knowledge and power catalyzes abreaction, emotional discharge, and psychic restructuring. Through language and rite, raw suffering is transformed into a comprehensible narrative. The study, drawing on Freud, Lacan, and Lévi-Strauss, argues that therapeutic efficacy lies in offering a solid matrix of meaning for the subject's helplessness, allowing symbolization of trauma and symptomatic stabilization.
Meditation-based interventions, especially mindfulness programs, significantly reduce psychological stress in medical students. Additional benefits include decreased anxiety, depression, and burnout, along with improved mental well-being, academic performance, and empathy. Interventions varied in format, duration, and intensity, including in-person, online, and app-based modalities, with informal practices and short sessions predominating. Despite recurrent methodological limitations, meditative practice is a viable and effective strategy for promoting mental health in medical students, warranting incorporation into university settings and future studies with greater methodological rigor.