[Pica. Anomalies in mother-child relations].
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.
Service de Psychopathologie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris.
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010842:Pica / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy
Le pica. Anomalies de la relation mère-enfant.