Contemporary demands of psychology in the public sector: Winnicott reflections on the antisocial tendency

Abstract

The purpose of this article is reflect the contemporary demand for psychology in public health services, especially that that refer to children and adolescents, and their guardians, in which the concept of antisocial tendency is the main complaint. To achieve the development of this reflection, we used the psychoanalytic methodology, so that practices of a university extension project allowed the psychoanalytic understanding of the concept of antisocial tendency and its impact on today's public health. From this methodology, the discussion of this work is supported from the concept of antisocial tendency, by Winnicott, and a brief history of the insertion of psychology in the public health, besides the presentation of the university extension project. Thus, the results indicate the possibility of constructing clinical different framings of the psychotherapy in individual setting to manifestations of antisocial tendency in children and adolescents considered antisocial. After the analysis of the concept, of the insertion of psychologists in public health and of the clinical framings proposed by the university extension project, was concluded by the need for a look of psychoanalysis by Winnicott in which the environment is considered in the treatment offered to children and adolescents considered antisocial.