Freud as a pediatrician: The experience with children at the origin of psychoanalysis and its resonances in contemporary times.

As a child psychoanalyst, Marcela Carolina Schild Vieira is recognized for her sensitivity and inventiveness. As a researcher, she distinguished herself with a study on the notion of the mirror in Lacan and Winnicott. In her doctoral thesis in Clinical Psychology from PUC-SP, she argued that the ten years Freud spent at the Vienna children's hospital profoundly influenced his theory of infantile sexuality.

In this book, the author addresses an alarming issue in contemporary society: the excessive and often indiscriminate medicalization of childhood. Natural behaviors and processes are treated as pathological; it is necessary to observe: are children experiencing their full development or responding to the overload of the current complex model of existence? When will they be able to simply play, explore, and create?

With clear writing, solid and ethical arguments, the book is essential reading for parents, educators, health and legal professionals interested in the topic of childhood.

- Renato Mezan