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INNER CHILD [3 records]

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Record 1 2010-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
  • Human Behaviour
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
CONT

child, socially maladjusted. A child who, in trying to solve his problems, comes into conflict with the value system held by dominant society ...; he often exhibits serious emotional disturbance.

OBS

Some children are either unable or unwilling to conform to accepted norms of behaviour, and if these deviations are serious or extreme or persistent, they are considered behavioural disorders. Basically, such problems fall into two categories :(1) emotional maladjustment, in which the child shows inner tensions, anxiety, neuroticism, or psychotic behaviour, and(2) social maladjustment, in which the child shows defiance and disregard for constituted authority and general antisocial behaviour. Although there is sometimes an overlap between the emotionally disturbed and the socially maladjusted, emotional disturbance basically refers to the psychological characteristics of the child, whereas social maladjustment refers to the relations of the child to society as a whole.

Key term(s)
  • socially maladjusted child

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
  • Sociologie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence
  • Comportement humain
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
OBS

enfant inadapté : présentant un déficit intellectuel ou des troubles affectifs qui le rendent incapable de faire face aux conditions normales de la vie.

Key term(s)
  • enfant inadapté
  • enfance inadaptée

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Personality Development
CONT

Mechanisms of defense like denial, reaction formation, repression, are not simply organized in "the mind". They are developed, as all ego functions are, in and by the movements of the body in reaction to the inner impulses and the demands of the outer environment the child finds itself in.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

L'orientation que Jacques Lacan donne à la psychanalyse [...] pivote autour de la fonction du Moi.

Spanish

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Record 3 1995-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique

Spanish

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