Abstract
Objective: To analyze how the rupture of affective bonds with family members affects the psychic suffering of inmates in the city of Teresina-PI. Methods: The research was carried out with women deprived of liberty for more than 2 years imprisoned, in the city of Teresina-PI, through a qualitative, descriptive approach to data analysis. There was a clarification about the research, the internal ones who agreed, signed the Free and Informed Consent Form (TCLE). The answers were obtained by a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview, followed by data collection and content analysis of Bardin L (2011). Results: The study included 11 internals, in which the results of the answers is the importance of the family in the process of incarceration as well as a better understanding of the psychological suffering of women and the forms of impairment in mental health with the loss of family ties. Conclusion: It was observed the need for the treatment of women institutionalized in prisons and the influence of this in the process of resocialization, as a way to help mental health strategies and the improvement of affective relationships and, consequently, quality of life.