[Times of childhood. Clinic of urgency and helplessness].

In this paper we discuss the "times of childhood", the relevance of what is "urgent" in the construction of psychological subjectivity, the symptoms leading to the identifcation of an early distress in children up to the age of 2, and some other mental health emergencies, such as abuse, violence and Münchausen syndrome. We consider the infant-mother relationship the cornerstone of this clinic of helplessness. We discuss the notion of emergency beyond the classic psychiatric emergency.