Biomedical subjects

N Catheline-Antipoff

Publications and source records attributed to N Catheline-Antipoff.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1996

[Can successful reading acquirements be predicted?].

BACKGROUND: This research aims to register predictive tests of reading by way of a first intention test usually proposed in children with school difficulties: the WISC-R. POPULATION AND METHODS: Thirty-one children aged from 3.9 to 8.3 years, consulting in a psychiatry service for school difficulties, were tested twice. Twenty-one children aged less than 5.9 years (age for beginning to read), consulting for anticipated schooling, were also included in the study. These fifty-two children passed twice WISC-R for the elder and WPPSI for those who were younger. RESULTS: Three subtests, similitude test, understanding test and test of Kohs 'blocks seemed to be good predictive markers of ability to read. Predictive score for fiability with these three tests was 87%. CONCLUSIONS: These tests that bring the ability of generalizing into question, as reality and space adjustment, show well the necessary qualities for a child who must begin to read.

Child↗

PubMed1995

[From vertical to horizontal. Writing in adolescence].

Writing at adolescence has a non negligible part in identity's construction. Vertical writing as tags, graphs and graffiti refer to a narcissism deficiency and express a pulsional necessity, whereas, horizontal writing as private diaries, letters and novels express object's search and are made in dreaming attitude.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1995

[White walls for black holes: essay on graffiti psychopathology].

Through a clinical case, the authors propose a psychological approach of tagging. The phenomenon that started in Harlem's black ghettos at the end of seventies and appeared in France less than ten years after, does not seem to be a simple sociological one, but seems to take place within the psychic economy of certain adolescents as an attempt to operate the necessary identity work to become an adult. Tagging as well as wandering can be considered adolescents' acting out behaviors and show the externalization of the psychic processes, thus proving a basic insecurity in their psychic space, invaded by anaclitic depression. Graffing, on the other hand, bears a resemblance to strolling in a psychopathologic approach, and already shows an attempt to become a person, and a quest of the Other.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1994

[Gifted children and dysharmonious development].

Gifted children are exposed to psychological disturbances. How much this psychological fragility is of a constitutional origin or is acquired, resulted from their intellectual precocity, is unclear. Nevertheless it justifies an early recognition of these children, knowing that psychological disturbances may be present early in life and mask the intellectual precocity. This is illustrated by the case of a three-year-old girl. Psychometric tests should be performed on an individual basis in order to avoid the negative effects of affective and emotional factors; an IQ above 140 characterizes gifted children. However, creativity tests are equally important allowing to identify their high capacity of originality and creativity. Uneven development of intelligence, affectivity and psychomotricity is frequent, which may induce anxiety disorders, obsessional behaviour and personality disorders. It appears that the higher the IQ is, the greater the psychological fragility, this fragility usually being important for an IQ above 170. The education of gifted children should be concentrated on the development of creativity and reflection, avoiding the tediousness of learning mainly based on memorizing and the acquisition of mechanisms. Early intervention is recommended in the case of psychological and behavioural disturbances, as an attempt to prevent the risk of pathological psychological organization.

Child Behavior Disorders↗