This paper analyses the current form of classification of malaise in children and adolescents. It localizes the foundations of childhood in the birth of industry and the systemization of school, as well as those of contemporary taxonomies in the epistemic turn caused by the DSM III. It exposes some of the inconsistencies of this model and advocates for psychoanalytic cure, allowing a different and consequent approximation to psychopathology that allows to understand patients better.
Key words:
DSM; childand adolescent psychopathology; psychoanalysis; genealogy; ideology