Food deprivation and impacts on psychic constitution: a study about the establishment of the demand in children diagnosed with malnutrition through the application of psychoanalytical evaluation at the age of three

Authors

  • Karla Patrícia Holanda Martins Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3242-6287
  • Maria Celina Peixoto Lima Universidade de Fortaleza - UNIFOR
  • Gabriela Monteiro Simão Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC
  • Allan Ratts de Sousa Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v21i3p618-638

Keywords:

child malnutrition, hunger, demand, food refusal, psychoanalytical evaluation at the age of 3.

Abstract

This article is part of a line of studies whose purpose is to ponder the experience of hunger in childhood and its possible connections with the psychic constitution process. Some results of the application of the Avaliação Psicanalítica aos 3 anos (AP3) instrument, applied in a third sector institution which is reference in the treatment of infant malnutrition in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará state, Brazil, will be presented. With the analysis, it was possible to relate the prevalence of malnutrition with the processes of establishment of demand, taking into account that the privation of food may be paradoxically correlated to its refusal. 

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Author Biographies

  • Karla Patrícia Holanda Martins, Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC
    Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará.
  • Maria Celina Peixoto Lima, Universidade de Fortaleza - UNIFOR

    Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade de Fortaleza.

  • Gabriela Monteiro Simão, Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC
    Mestranda em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará, na linha de Psicanálise e Práticas Clínicas.
  • Allan Ratts de Sousa, Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC
    Psicólogo graduado pela Universidade Federal do Ceará.

Published

2016-12-17

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How to Cite

Martins, K. P. H., Lima, M. C. P., Simão, G. M., & Sousa, A. R. de. (2016). Food deprivation and impacts on psychic constitution: a study about the establishment of the demand in children diagnosed with malnutrition through the application of psychoanalytical evaluation at the age of three. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 21(3), 618-638. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v21i3p618-638