IRDI methodology (Clinical Risk Indicators in Child Development) is a tool for the assessment and monitoring of the psychic constitution of babies from age zero to 18 months. It was established based on four constitutive operations: assumption of the subject, establishment of demand, presence/absence alternation, and paternal function — which all appear in the baby’s relationship with caregivers. This paper reports an intervention carried out in a municipal daycare center with a 10-month baby suffering from psychic constitution problems, as characterized by the absence of expected indicators that appeared following the intervention.
IRDI methodology; subject constitution; research and psychoanalysis; clinical tools; prevention