Tatiana Carvalho Assadi

O menino e o efeito pirilampo: um estudo em psicossomática

The boy and the fire-fly effect. A study on psychosomatics. This work aims at discussing a psychosomatic phenomenon - alopecia - that has been marking the history of Yuri since he was three years old. The methodology used is that of a case study, which evidences the significant that were stamped on that child with Down syndrome and the place he occupies in the discourse of his parents. Obviously, this psychosomatic phenomenon attacks the real of the body, producing a family imaginary cut from the symbolic order. The treatment direction is to produce chains among the complex relationships between the biological functions of the body and the language.