Abstract
This article aims to present aspects of the discussion about the controversies present in the process of infantile medicalization, the result of a study, still in progress, in a Master's program in Psychology, oriented theoretically by the Ator-Rede theory. It can be observed that, in the infantile scope, the medicalization has brought about significant changes, that extend from the increasing increase of its use until the constant changes in the vision of work feasible with the small ones. Play, seen as an activity not only of leisure, but of elaboration and resolution of conflicts, is being, in many cases, relegated to the background and replaced by medication. To map the controversies and understand how the network of child medicalization has been constructed, it is necessary to listen to the actors involved and follow the chains that give emergency to this phenomenon.
Keywords:
Medicalization of Childhood; Actor-Network; Controversies; Depathologization