Repères diagnostiques de la psychose infantile à l'âge de latence
(2014) Annales médico-psychologiques — Vol. 172, n° 4, p. 313-320 (2014)
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- (en) [Diagnostic reference marks of the infantile psychosis at the age of latency] The concepts of "psychosis" and "latency" can, for some, to appear obsolete. We center on the first. It is clear that the concept of "psychosis" is hardly used than in the working frameworks being based on the psychodynamic epistemology and references. Other names came out without however focussing on the subjacent psychopathological aspects. The risk then appears to draw aside from the relevant methods of comprehension to apprehend the psychic and relational difficulties of a child and to stop with a primarily descriptive reading of those. It could follow of it a lack of depth in the therapeutic accompaniment rising from such a manner of proceeding. After having pointed out the psychopathological aspects, in the light of three clinical labels, the author evokes five registers of clinical signs which back up the diagnosis of psychosis in the child. Their intensity and their multiplicity define the depth of operation psychotic. Firstly, the language since the child psychotic is confronted with the difficulty of being located in a speech in the direction of the usual code of communication. Secondly, the anguish which is central in the problems of the psychosis, threatening the child constantly fights about it against the vacuum and the absence. Thirdly, the body of the child psychotic confronted with the question of the body envelope and the distinction enters the interior and external world. Fourthly, the report with the reality of the child psychotic presenting imaginary regularly overflowing, marked by confusion. Fifthly, the trainings because, in the psychosis, the child tests usually difficulties to learn, learn how to say itself and to accept other what it does not know yet. The diagnostic step thus authorizes a time of observation, comprehension and stating necessary to the treatment. It aims at locating the evocative clinical signs of a disorganization of the thought, affects and social relations, likely to lead to the dysharmonic subject. © 2014 Elsevier Masson SAS.
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de Becker, E. (2014). Repères diagnostiques de la psychose infantile à l’âge de latence. Annales médico-psychologiques, 172(4), 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2014.03.006 (Original work published 2014)