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6° 6éme Congresso Congrès Européen Europeo de di Psicopatologia Psychopathologie dell’Infanzia de l’Enfance e et dell’Adolescenza
de l’Adolescence
Nuove Nouvelles normalità normalités Nuove Nouvelles patologie pathologies Nuove pratiche Nouvelles pratiques
THURSDAY, May 5 POSTER SESSIONS
Poster session 4 Families - Adoption - Support - Educational Training
Summary: Peter is an eight-year old; he was
adopted at three years of age. Since he arrived
in Spain, he has had behavioural problems which
lead his parents to take him to various consultations
and to read books on ADHD.
Through the child’s symptoms, parents, and
their demands, I reflect on the transition from
action to thought.
Key words: child, parents, adoption, demand,
thought.
ABSTRACT:
Peter’s parents
When asked about the adoption process, they
tell me about the administrative procedures.
When the parents saw the child’s photo, they
became "very excited”.
On arriving here all the medical checkups started.
Peter was very restless, and the father began
to look through internet and buy books on AD-
HD…”has improved a lot since then”. The doctors
tested him and the parents were relieved “to
know that the brain received normally”.
Father brings a book to the session, and puts
it on the table. In the end, he reads from the
book, “If I don't mind”… “What we have felt”.
Peter and his parents
3 - “FROM LOOK TO THOUGHT”
Diaz Rodriguez, Maria Esther
Psychiatric Section Chief, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña - Spain
When Peter comes in, the father invites him to
sit between him and the mother. He sits beside
his mother, she gives him a kiss, and the father
looks at the book.
He is defined as cheerful, talkative, sociable,
and playful, he always wants to get his own way
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but this seems to be less and less often, he
sometimes has tantrums, cries, and insults
them.
Communicates feelings, he tells them many
times that he loves them, and likes to help.
He is very loved by older people, likes to be
with them and makes them laugh.
The father adds that if they give him time to
think, he can come round to understanding their
point of view.
Peter
Cheerful and friendly, he intervenes spontaneously
providing data.
He ends up playing with some boxes in which
he puts in and takes out animals and geometric
figures. He gives me the keys to these, and asks
me to keep them until the next day he comes,
showing me where the boxes are hidden. They
are not left in open view.
He's theatrical, making gestures of supposed
comical attitude, but when I tell him the day of
the following session, he becomes serious and
attentive.
Reflections
The parents were acting out the symptoms
that they brought with them as a diagnosis of
their child.
As I go through the session with them, they
progress from talking about the administrative
actions of the adoption to the experience of the
same. They put words to personal fantasies,
some reflection, and unknown until then by the