[The extremely violent child].
More and more children have extremely violent behaviour which appears about the age of 15-16 months, when walking makes their hands free. This violence is individual, can appear suddenly at anytime, and is not accompanied by guilt. It is caused by early psychological and repeated traumas, whose importance is usually underestimated: unpredictable, violent parents, exposure to the spectacle of conjugal violence, distortion of the signals emitted by the toddler. These traumas bring about specific psychological structure. The prevention of these troubles exists but is impossible to realise in France.
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Service de pédopsychiatrie, centre hospitalier Bellevue, CHU de Saint-Etienne, pavillon 20, 42055 Saint-Etienne cedex 02, France. maurice.berger@chu-st-etienne.fr
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D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*