Mental Health & Human Resilience International Journal (MHRIJ)

ISSN: 2578-5095

Research Article

The Effects of Violence Due to Neglect in Childhood

Authors: Silva PP*

DOI: 10.23880/mhrij-16000179

Abstract

There are almost imperceptible levels of violence in the family fabric that leave deep marks on the psyche of the infant, such as abuse due to neglect, a continuous and silent behavior that comes to annul the subjectivity of the other, leaving him completely helpless, hopeless and without resources to find ways to allow the infant to express their affections, difficulties are observed while interacting with others and inserting themselves in the social environment. Neglect is not a physical absence of the person who exercises parental care, but rather it is an emotional absence, a type of violence in which protection, support, care and attention cannot be provided to the infant. Leaving him helpless and devoid of psychic resources. It is quite common nowadays that parents do not have time to attend to the basic needs of children, they have other priorities, so neglect is not a violence that can be recognized so easily, but is observed in clinical practice, in session, how children nowadays have a great impossibility to be recognized as individuals, as subjects with suffering, desires, dreams and desires. This is psychoanalytic research, of a qualitative nature, in which a clinical vignette will be analyzed with the aim of identifying the psychic elements that prevent the internal development of the infant exerted by violence due to neglect.

Keywords: Violence; Neglect; Childhood

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