Abstract
The article aims to investigate how childhood is experienced by children in a psychosocial care center for children and adolescents - CAPSij, starting at one internship experience. For this, the methodology used was the CAPSij’s case study with the exploratory type method. Drawing a portrait of CAPSij, it was possible to show how the service is structured to propose interventions with children who attend it. Through the activities, the flow of the service and interactions with facility staff noticed a peculiar way of care and under constant construction enabling forms of construction of subjectivity, as well as appropriation of itself. Given the above in the case study and literature survey, it was concluded that there are possibilities of alterity for the child who attends CAPSij since considered the listening and the becoming-child of each professional who works in the service.
Keywords:
alterity; children; childhood; insanity