Resumos
This study aims to investigate the experience of being a child diagnosed with ADHD. We structured our research in four meetings with parents and children. Two children diagnosed with ADHD participated in this study. This is a phenomenological-hermeneutic research that used playtime and the sandbox as resources. The interpretation of the encounters with the children was based on the Heideggerian hermeneutic circle, adapted by Azevedo (2013). The children’s existences were revealed from the perspective of being a child-with-ADHD-in-treatment. We believe that as long as the meaning of being is merely given, the children’s psychic suffering will be a biologizing representation, forgetting the original phenomenon of “Dasein” proposed by Heidegger — that is, the sense of “being there.”
Key words:
ADHD; childhood; attention; phenomenology
Thumbnail
