Citation

Armus M, Factorovich M, Woscoboinik N. Vertex 2017; XXVIII(131): 55-60.

Vernacular Title

Tiempos de la infancia. Clínica de la urgencia y del desamparo.

Affiliation

Programa "Mirar y Prevenir", Ministerio de Salud, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. marcela.armus@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Polemos)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

29522616

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the "times of childhood", the relevance of what is "urgent" in the construction of psychological subjectivity, the symptoms leading to the identifcation of an early distress in children up to the age of 2, and some other mental health emergencies, such as abuse, violence and Münchausen syndrome. We consider the infant-mother relationship the cornerstone of this clinic of helplessness. We discuss the notion of emergency beyond the classic psychiatric emergency. We conclude there is an urgent need to build work teams (health care professionals, education professionals, professionals in the judicial feld) trained in the early detection of warning signs and early intervention.

Language: es