Pais e ambiguidade: considerações a partir de estudo de caso

Abstract

The genital ambiguity arises within the family and the health team as an emergency; the physical impairment of the child's genitalia impossible to identify whether it is a boy or a girl. From experience in a clinical genetics service, based on listening to parents of children with ambiguous genitalia, the interest of this work arises, which has to analyze how the parents of children with ambiguous genitalia deal with this genetic condition of their children. For the preparation of this work was used as a method to study cases, these built from calls made reports to parents of children with ambiguity. Thus were prepared two clinical case studies from psychoanalysis theoretical framework, covering the research objective. As a result the present study observed by clinical case studies that how every family, mother and father deal with the condition of genital ambiguity of their children occurs in a particular way; through the experiences that parents experience at the birth of these children, promotes particular forms incorporate this genetic condition. As the case studies pointed to each of the families read a particular way, by a doubt, others in the constitution of a family secret, and it is from this background that the subject child is.