Abstract

ROSA, Carlos Mendes; VERAS, Lana  and  VILHENA, Junia. Childhood and psychological suffering: medicalization, commercialization, and legalization. Estilos clin. [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.2, pp. 226-245. ISSN 1415-7128.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v20i2p226-245.

Speeches on childhood are being produced in contemporary society? To perform this questioning, in the light of psychoanalysis, it is the main objective of this article, that also encourages the reflection on legalization, medicalization, and commercialization processes of the first stages of life. It is understood that the initial times of development reverberate in the working mode of the subject. So that the ways in which social groups deal with different children influence the future design of each society. This confirms the relevance of thinking on the topic "psychological suffering in childhood and its consequences".

Keywords : psychological suffering; childhood; legalization; medicalization; commercialization.

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