Abstract

MENENDEZ OSORIO, Federico. Infantile Mental Health: what are we talking about whe referring child in psychopathology: prevention and clinics in infantile psychopathology. Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq. [online]. 2014, vol.34, n.122, pp.353-372. ISSN 2340-2733.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-57352014000200008.

Every psychopathological praxis involves a theory and a conception of the individual, the object of its study. As for the infantile clinics, this assumption is left out by a view of the child dominated by stereotypes and ignorance. Knowledge of childhood represents to account for the story, the individual statute, his/her psychical, biological, social... condition. The two specific and differential records and tools of our clinical praxis are marked: language and subjectivity. The recommendable intervention for prevention and clinical praxis is shaped upon those. With regard to prevention, by questioning the concept of vulnerability as the anomalous, and by introducing the concept of resilience as needed to understand the preventive praxis. We also rethink the false mimicry with the medical-biological model of prevention, given the specificity and genuine condition of the psychical sphere. In relation to the clinical praxis, several topics are formulated, questioning the 'scientificist -not scientific- reductionism' of the psychical knowledge; the diagnostic confusion of the symptom with the disease; the 'pathologization' of behaviors, etc., among other reconsiderations of the psychopathological clinics. Finally, we have to supply the children with a place and a space where they can account for the expression of their psychical suffering.

Keywords : Infantile Mental Health; Prevention; Clinics; Subjectivity; Language; Infantile Psychopathology.

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