The pediatric team and the consulting child psychiatrist and the hospitalized depressed infant.
The link between pediatricians and child mental health professionals is a complex, but fascinating issue. Based on our clinical experience, this paper will discuss the issue of depression in very young children hospitalized for serious illness in a general pediatric ward, and its theoretical implications. We begin with a clinical vignette, followed by a review of several clinical phenomena including anticipated bereavement (either by the parents or the medical team, or both), some high-tech medical conditions specific to neonatology and joint parents-infant hospitalization as well as relating the above to psychoanalytical concepts. The significance and importance of adopting a dual perspective, from both the pediatric and the psychopathological viewpoint, while treating the very sick hospitalized young child and his/her parents, is underlined.
Golse
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Rene Descartes University, Paris V, France. b.golse@svp.ap-hop-paris.fr
Keren
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D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D016114:Ichthyosis, X-Linked / Q000523:psychology; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011584:Psychology; D012803:Sick Role