Deprivação e tendência anti-social no adolescente face o divórcio parental

Abstract

This study sought to analyze and understand the characteristics of the relationships between parents and children in the context of divorce, from the perspective of adolescents with indicators of antisocial tendency, as defined by Winnicott’s psychoanalytical theory (1956 / 2000). For Winnicott, children and adolescents who undergo some kind of disruption in the continuity of parental care may display behavioral maladjustments, which cause what he called a state of deprivation. With a qualitative approach, through the study of multiple cases, signs and symptoms of deprivation were sought in these adolescents. The theoretical fundamentals used as reference were also based on studies on divorce and on contributions from family experts and scientists, who have researched the impacts of parental separation on children. The subjects were one female aged 12, and two males aged 13 and 15. The access to these cases was made possible through a private school attended by middle-income students, located in the metropoli