GRISANTI, R. S.; LANGE, E. S. N.; RIBEIRO E. A. A criança acidentada atendida no hospital, um estudo psicanalítico do imaginário infantil [The injured child assisted in the hospital; a psychoanalytic study of the infant imaginary]. Revista de Psicologia da Vetor Editora. São Paulo, v.4, n.2, dez. 2003.
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Childhood accidents are currently an important cause of mortality. Of the hospitalizations in Ribeirão Pires Hospital, 42.5%, resulting from accidents in the year 2002, were with children under 14 years of age. This paper proposes the study of some psychic determinants that may be associated with childhood accidents. As a procedure, we used the Thematic Story-Drawing with the injured children who had been in or out of the hospital from October 2002 to May 2003. Of the accidents, 96.4% occurred while the children were playing. The results showed that the combination of feelings – the desire to be cared for (feelings of abandonment) and guilt – appears as the most common cause that can lead children to be injured. The psychological factors are not unique, but are part of a set of conditions, both external and internal, related to the dynamics of these subjects. The child who gets into an accident seems to bring in his/her history an identification with behaviors in which guilt and the consequent reparation are present. The propensity to have accidents seems to reproduce an unconscious desire to alleviate guilt.