Le paradoxe de l’enfant surdoué : de l’intelligence à la fragilité

الملخص EN

Children are born and grow up in their family milieu; their initial relation is with their mother which has a big influence on their becoming.

The development of the child goes through two stages: the first stage relates to Intelligence and the second one relates to affection.

In order to define the cognitive side, we had recourse to Total Intellectual Quotient (IQ) among extremely Gifted Children whom total intellectual quotient is superior to 130.

However, its personality is often disturbed despite its intellectual hyper maturity.

With the purpose of obtaining a conception about the affective side, we used the psychiatric theory as a reference.

This approach is complementary to the cognitive approach for the overall understanding of the individual.

Our intervention aims at presenting some characteristics of the extremely Gifted Child accompanied with a clinical vignette: Ouahab who portrays a paradox; intelligent at the cognitive level and fragile at the psychic level as obtained from the analysis of Rorschach and TAT.