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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
[Pica. Anomalies in mother-child relations]
A de La Blanchardière1, E Contamin
1Service de Psychopathologie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris.
Abstract:
A 3-year old boy was referred to a paediatric psychiatry out-patient clinic for major disorders consisting of hyperphagia, intolerance to frustrations and instability since the age of one year, and pica (i.e. the indigestion of non-edible substances) since the age of two years. These symptoms developed in a context of greatly disturbed parent-child relations, predominantly made of ambivalence and inability to define limits and interdictions. Conversations with the family are restoring the parental roles and improving the child's symptoms.
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