The medicalizing culture and the transgenerational process

Abstract

This study aims to reflect on the focuses of medicalizing culture on transgenerational processes and child symptoms. In the contemporaneous scenario, the codification of suffering in terms of a type of naming framed within medical discourse grows, more precisely psychiatric discourse, which is broadly socialized, and orders the relations of the subject with his/her own subjectivity. In this sense, it is worth thinking that the medicalization procedures, which arise in contact with the adult population, have been extended also to children. Based on clinical observations, we can see that there is a growing number of distracted or restless children, that would demand special care from their teachers and family members, that would be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the psychoanalytical practice with children stands out as an area of knowledge that presents significant specificities, including the opening of a space to listen to the parents in the preliminary interviews and to work with them, when necessary. Thus, since working with parents is included and for seeming to be an alternative to unchecked medicalization, constant theoretical study of the peculiarities of child psychoanalytical practice articulated to family relations becomes necessary, since it possesses a structuring character in the constitution of the child subject.