Actually I've translated this from french (dysharmonie psychotique infantile), I don't know if there is a specific name in english.
Here is a definition I found on Internet, translated from french too :
" * The psychotic disharmonies, which have an obvious expression from 3 or 4 years. Their symptomatology varies from a case to the other one and, for the same child, modifies any time. These disharmonies are indeed characterized, as their name indicates it, by a not harmonious, not simultaneous development, between the various levels of organization that are the psychoaffective sphere, the cognitive sphere, the psychomotor development, every level of organization evolving in a sense relatively independently of the other levels.
It results from it this impression of said disorganization " dysharmonique " by the thought, the affects and the social relationships, with for consequence a threat of break with the reality, the absence or the bad organization of the feeling of one, the tendency to the overflowing of the thought by very raw representations, fears of diverse types (fears of neantisation, depressive fear and of separation), the ascendancy of poof positions and archaic interests. However, in spite of these features, certain capacities of adaptation sometimes assure a protection against the risks of disorganization. It is thus necessary to insist in these situations on the fragility of the adaptation of these children to their environment, and to watch not to confront them in a abrupt way with requirements which they cannot surmount.
On the clinical plan, the psychotic disharmonies are characterized by their polymorphism. The most frequent demonstrations are: - the demonstrations of fear - a severe inhibition - a big psychomotor instability - important relational disorders - an academic failure."
I don't recognize myself in that. It makes me sad to hear that from my psychanalyst, I hoped he'd accept my AS theory, in which I really find myself... I've never failed at school. I don't have "archaïc interests". I'm as far from my mother as I can be...
15 Sep 2010, 6:10 am
