This study is based on the reflections arising from listening and intervening in a group of parents in a public psychiatric clinic. The dichotomy of the effects of diagnostic nomination seems sometimes to allow children and adolescents to be enrolled in an order of parentage, and sometimes to render the possibilities of subjectification inflexible. We discuss the forms of parentage built under the prescriptive character of the psychiatric diagnosis and their possible effects on the manners of caring and the bonds between parents and children.
Diagnosis; nomination; parentage; psychoanalysis with children