Mother-Child Interactive Psychodynamics and Weaning

• Autor(a) principal: Sampaio, Marisa Amorim
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Falbo, Ana Rodrigues, Camarotti, Maria do Carmo, Vasconcelos, Maria Gorete Lucena de, Echeverria, Andréa, Lima, Geisy, Ramos, Maria Regina Pereira, Prado, Janaína Viana Zoby do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17486
• topic: Aleitamento materno; Desmame; Relações mãe-filho; Desnutrição protéica; Psicanálise; Pesquisa qualitativa; Breast feeding; Weaning; Mother-child relations; Protein malnutrition; Psychoanalysis; Qualitative research

Breastfeeding is one of the main interventions in reducing child morbimortality, a privileged process to subjectivation, to child development and to prevention of disturbances in child-mother bond, when it is well experienced by the dyad. The study analyzed the psychodynamics involved in early weaning and late weaning, based on the interaction of two mother-child dyads with severe malnutrition, involving babies aged six and 15 months, hospitalized in a teaching institution. Qualitative methods based on psychoanalysis were used, with semi-structured interviews and observations. Early weaning seemed related to difficulties constructing motherhood and bonding; late weaning appeared to reflect an excess of maternal affection or difficulty in accepting the father figure.