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Psicologia em Revista

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ALMEIDA, Bruna Rocha de  and  MELGACO, Paula. WHEN THE CHILD IS BORN SICK: THE SUBJECTIVITY OF THE INFANT AND THE FAMILY RELATIONSHIP. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.2, pp.356-373. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2016V22N2P356.

The presence of severe organic disease in children allows for investigation into one of the ways in which the subjective constitution suffers its effects. In such cases, the psychic condition, far from being a direct consequence of organic pathology, represents an identification of imaginary interplay very complex of the relationship that the social field (especially caregivers) establishes with the child. Often, parents of children born with serious diseases cannot see a future for them and begin to treat them as impotent, as someone without the power to realize parental desires. This fact can result in a divestment of parental libido on these children and in damages to hers subjective constitution. This paper makes a theoretical elucidation on the incidence of serious illness in childhood. For a better understanding was used a clinical case as example

Keywords : Disease in childhood; Psychic constitution; Family.

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