As Anzieu said (1974, p. 195), our contemporary society would seek to evacuate the body. Repressed sexuality would henceforth be obsolete and replaced by the body. However, it would make a comeback with an urgent request for concreteness. The health crisis would confirm this observation.The author p...
Based on clinical observations, we examine what some children with a motor disability diagnosed during the perinatal period and their families show us. The complexity of the link is put into perspective with the trauma that the announcement of the disability can represent and the difficulties of sep...
The care pathway of a child with autism has a strong impact on the parental experience. In addition, parents are the main contacts for professionals taking care of these children. Finally, these parents, individually or collectively, take actions and influence the perception of autism in the social...
In this article, a clinical team from the Maison des Adolescents (Cochin Hospital) in adoption therapy analyzes their clinical sessions held by videoconference. During the lockdown period, some adoptive families experienced a happy and necessary regression, which allowed a reinforcement of their fam...
In the context of this article, the authors present the thread of their respective and sometimes common studies that they have carried out over the past fifteen years, dealing with different configurations of same-sex parenting (lesbian parenthood, co-parenting, surrogate motherhood for gay fathers)...
We support the hypothesis that the birth of a baby, and in particular an emergency caesarean section, is an opportunity to live a regressive experience, resonating with the primary experiences of the subject. The archaic experiences of parturients during childhood are then recalled and the caesarean...
The diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder during infancy is controversial. Taking a developmental perspective of psychopathology, Pine (1974; 1986) proposed the notion of the borderline-child-to-be. He suggests that this child is characterized by the occurrence of trauma in the context of the...
This article will attempt to show that it is not possible to question the infant’s experience during the first weeks of life by observing his or her behavior only. Data from Bayesian cognitive science and phenomenology offer us a much more relevant perspective on the infant’s experience during this...
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) refers to a variety of symptoms. Physical and verbal aggression as well as physical and psychological self-aggression play a central role in this disorder. Although BPD is usually diagnosed in adulthood, it is possible to observe some emerging traits in adolesce...
Adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosa regularly describe conflicting sibling relationships. The Brothers Grimm tale Hansel and Gretel features a pair of siblings confronted with family issues similar to those found in eating disorders. A compendium of human experience accumulated since the daw...
This study aimed at exploring some parents’ personal characteristics which may impact the Parenting Sense of Competence (PSC). Online questionnaires assessing parents’ PSC (QAECEP) and attachment style (RSQ), as well as a sociodemographic questionnaire, were proposed to 139 participants from the gen...
It is not always easy to give birth. Some women choose to deliver their first child through caesarean section without medical indications to do so. What is the psychic backdrop to this behavioral reality? How, in turn, does this behavioral reality shed light on the challenges that the somatopsychic...
In all cultures, nursery rhymes and the musicality of voices give rhythm to the lives of babies and children. They have a containing function and form a “wrapping of sound” (Anzieu, 1976). Building on this postulate, we have used nursery rhymes as a form of mediation within a therapeutic group. The...
On the basis of three research studies in psychoanalytic and developmental clinical psychology, each of which focuses on representations of pregnant women’s bodies and the unborn baby during pregnancy, we seek to emphasize the value of inviting expectant mothers to draw during interviews in the peri...
The reference system consists in designating a professional responsible for the integration of a group of children. Its pertinence to collective nurseries is supported by attachment theory, but it has only rarely been the object of empirical research. In this study, twenty professionals from eleven...
Child protective placement decisions have multiple bases. They rest upon the triptych of the Aide Sociale à l’enfance (ASE [Children’s Social Care Services]), the judiciary, and the authorized non-profit sector. The public policies on child protection put into action by the March 14, 2016 law and th...
This study focusses on the period in which placements come into effect by drawing on the direct testimonies of the children. Its objectives are to describe the emotions that these children experience at the time of separation and arrival at a new living-space such as they report them and to explore...
This article presents the results of an exploratory study focusing on processes of change in adolescents who have perpetrated sexual violence and who receive psychotherapeutic treatment. The methodology is based on a longitudinal-type approach, with data being collected from group treatment and from...
Kidney transplantation in a pediatric nephrology setting challenges the psychical as well as the physical dimensions of the child subject to the transplant. In this article, we will review the psychic issues surrounding chronic and end-stage kidney disease, the question of the donation, and the iden...
This article describes the effects of a traumatic pregnancy upon the growth of early relationships and upon the development of the child of a Turkish mother who emigrated at the beginning of her third pregnancy. The analysis of this case shows that everything that endangered the mother’s mental stat...
In psychoanalytic literature, precociousness appears as a trans-nosographic symptom. Nevertheless, this very literature tends to portray precocious children in a homogeneous manner. In opposition to popular psychology, which postulates an intrinsic difference between such children and others, this a...
This article offers a critical study of the phenomenon of the medicalization, or even the “disabilization”, of learning difficulties. Indeed, each year there is a considerable increase in the number of children who, after struggling with learning or with becoming students, shift over to the field of...
After restating the etymology of the concept of disability, the authors compare the two major international classifications of disability to show the differences between them: the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH) and the International Classification of...
This article focuses on the narrativity of adolescent girls with an eating disorder of the anorexic type. The adolescent girls are hospitalized in the care unit of the Maison des adolescents – Maison de Solenn for varying lengths of time, and their multidisciplinary care program provides for a weekl...