%0 Journal Article %T Psicodinamica interativa m£¿e-crian£¿a e desmame %A Sampaio %A Marisa Amorim %A Falbo %A Ana Rodrigues %A Camarotti %A Maria do Carmo %A Vasconcelos %A Maria Gorete Lucena de %A Echeverria %A Andr¨¦a %A Lima %A Geisy %A Ramos %A Maria Regina Pereira %A Prado %A Jana¨ªna Viana Zoby do %J Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0102-37722010000400005 %X breastfeeding is one of the main interventions in reducing child morbimortality, a privileged process to subjectivation, to child development and to prevention of disturbances in child-mother bond, when it is well experienced by the dyad. the study analyzed the psychodynamics involved in early weaning and late weaning, based on the interaction of two mother-child dyads with severe malnutrition, involving babies aged six and 15 months, hospitalized in a teaching institution. qualitative methods based on psychoanalysis were used, with semi-structured interviews and observations. early weaning seemed related to difficulties constructing motherhood and bonding; late weaning appeared to reflect an excess of maternal affection or difficulty in accepting the father figure. %K breast feeding %K weaning %K mother-child relations %K protein malnutrition %K psychoanalysis %K qualitative research. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-37722010000400005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en