CONTRIBUIÇÕES DA CLÍNICA PSICANALÍTICA LACANIANA PARA O TRATAMENTO DA PSICOSE INFANTIL

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the contributions of the Lacan’s psychoanalytic clinic for the treatment of cases of child psychosis, from the perspective of the differential diagnosis between child psychosis and autism and as a consequence the need for specific treatments for each of these cases. Another aspect of analysis was the investigation of the essential expansion of the repertoire of studies and bibliographies on the subject in order to improve the construction of methods and treatments characteristic to each case, with the purpose of ensure effectiveness of these treatments. For this purpose, the method used to carry out the work was a bibliographic survey and a review of selected materials, based on the theoretical framework of Psychoanalysis. In the first chapter, it was possible to deepen this analysis by describing the concepts of psychosis. In the second chapter, it was specified about the classic contributions of psychoanalysis to the clinical child, as well as in relation to specific clinical managements for the treatment of child psychosis. The research results indicate that the objective of Lacanian oriented psychoanalysis in the treatment of child psychosis is to understand of the suffering child's own demands, and to help them in their development and quality of life. It is evident that this treatment is effective, in the light of psychoanalysis, based on the experiences of transformation of the classical method, also developed by contemporary psychoanalysts, to reach the psychotic child's analytical discourse.