[Outline of an epidemiological hypothesis of problems encountered in Québec families during pedopsychiatric consultations.].
The author studied 100 children who were assessed in a child psychiatry service in the east end of Montreal. He selected 52 of them, a priori, since they resembled children from the general population. Aggressive and attention-seeking behaviours are most frequent in those children below 12 years of age (N = 35), whereas depressive-anxiety behaviours are most frequent in the 12-18 years age group (N = 17). The author discusses these results to in relation to Kohut's conceptualization of narcissistic personalities. The author wonders whether these phenomena are not caused by the rapid evolution of Quebec society and he poses some questions with regard to their magnitude.
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