Abstract

TELLES, Josiane Cristina Coradi Prado; SEI, Maíra Bonafé  and  ARRUDA, Sérgio Luiz Saboya. Mother-baby silent communication under winnicott's view: theoretical-clinical reflections. Aletheia [online]. 2010, n.33, pp. 109-122. ISSN 1413-0394.

The aim of this paper was to discuss the silent communication between mother and baby from Winnicott`s point of view. This qualitative research, based on a clinical and psychoanalytic method, considered a case study of an eight-year-old child with difficulties in speech development, without organic cause, assisted during psychodynamic psychotherapy, which theoretical aspects were illustrated by the clinical treatment carried out. In the case reported, hypotheses were raised concerning the mother having failed in providing her child with a facilitating environment during their first months of life. The father also failed, and there were failures in the environment that also did not provide a good emotional support for the mother. The difficulty in the child's verbal expression was related to the maintenance of a primary silent communication, which would mean the warranty of psychic survival in the face of an environment that had not been configured until then as being good enough.

Keywords : Nonverbal communication; Mother-child relationship; Child development.