Childhood schizophrenia in the conception of Winnicottian psychoanalysis

Schizophrenia suffered a conceptual metamorphosis, going from an early dementia related to a chronic deterioration of some aspects of the individual to the current definition that speaks of a set of syndromes. To approach the thematic of schizophrenia in Psychiatry and Psychology is extremely different from treating it in psychoanalysis. Schizophrenia in psychoanalysis is presented as a category of psychosis, and the disintegration or separation that occurs in the flow of thought is its substantial phenomenon. This research aimed to conduct a case study of childhood schizophrenia in a Children's Psychosocial Care Centre (CAPSI), in the interior of Paraíba. A descriptive and qualitative research was carried out, using the Drawing-and-Story (D-E) projective test, created by Trinca (1972), and analysing it in the light of the theory of maturation described by the psychoanalyst Winnicott. Through the observations made during the application of the test, as well as from the analysis of the drawings and the verbalized content, it was verified that Maria perceives the external environment as hostile, seeking isolation, rejecting any social relation, having a basic attitude of opposition in relation to the external environment.