Atravessamentos das vulnerabilidades sociais traumáticas nas relações primárias do bebê avaliado com risco para o autismo

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the establishment of the motherchild bond of children at risk of autism in social contexts marked by potentially traumatic vulnerabilities, such as hunger, and everyday situations of social and discursive helplessness. We will return to Winnicott's theory to think about the healthy emotional development of the baby in a sensitive and continuous environment. Thus, some relevant questions arise: how a mother crossed by traumatic situations, without family and social support, could maintain the necessary conditions to present the world to her baby in a sensitive, delicate and continuous way? How can the baby internalize/symbolize these first experiences when this presentation is associated with disruptive environmental aspects? Our research field will be IPREDE/CONECTA, an outpatient clinic that serves children from birth to 12 years old with signs of risk for autism. Accompanying a set of researches already developed at the institution and, also based on the psychoanalytic bias, we reflect on the manifestations of psychic suffering, marked by situations of social and discursive helplessness. Aiming to problematize the forms of mother-baby relationships, we will return to Winnicottian theory to reflect on the baby's early depressions and their possible causes, rescuing René Spitz's notes to think about babies deprived of maternal function; André Green to think about the specular dimension of maternal depression and the contemporary studies of Bernard Golse to explain baby depression. In addition to the bibliographical path, we will resume the work of institutional clinical care, presenting the work path using the RICD instrument (Risk Indicators for Child Development) for monitoring and intervention with a child who entered CONECTA aged one year and three months, under investigation for autism.