Psychologist Caroline Goldman answered questions about children qualified as High Intellectual Potential. And according to her, it’s all just a “big lie”.
Childhood professionals are not all in agreement on the educational methods applied with children. With regard to positive education, a concept which she accuses of having been hijacked, for example, psychologist Caroline Goldman defends her idea of Time-Out, period during which the child is isolated in a room to calm down. A controversial technique that was attacked by other psychologists in a forum, they called Caroline Goldman’s methods “ordinary educational violence” that does not fit into the mainstream positive education.
For an interview with lou.mediafr, Caroline Goldman is once again at the heart of the debates, she answers questions about children who are qualified as High Intellectual Potential (HPI) and goes against the grain of everything that has been said for a few years. According to her, it is a “big lie”someone “invented the idea that being smart could be a problem”. The interview was published on June 7 on the media’s Instagram account and his own, and the words of the psychologist were quick to react. The video has already been viewed more than 70,000 times…
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“It is a facility that has won over both professionals and parents”
Caroline Goldman does not mince words, intelligence, even very high, would be a quality like any other. She even compares the symptoms of HPI with “symptoms usually encountered in psychiatry”and advance “that it is absurd to explain that intelligence could be depressing, isolating on the socio-relational level.” And if this diagnosis relieves the parents, the psychologist affirms that it also facilitates the life of the professionals of childhood: “It is always more attractive for shrinks to tell patients that if they have behavioral problems or are hyperactive it is because that they are intellectually brilliant. The weakness that our professional corpus has had is not to regulate this at its origin and to leave these lies to be conveyed for 15 years around this fantasized reality.”
Apart from psychologists, according to Caroline Goldman, parents also want to make their lives easier or “disempower” with this diagnosis: “It exempts them from any questioning of the educational methods in which their child has been immersed and which have given rise to the suffering and symptoms for which they consult.”
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The diagnosis of HPI, a “fantasy”?
As a reminder, in recent years the number of HPI diagnostic requests has exploded, yet according to the Gaussian curve, only 2.3% of the French population is HPI. This does not reflect any scientific reality for Caroline Goldman, these are “fantasies that are based on absolutely no tangible and demonstrated scientific reality. This idea that we might be too smart to be happy is absolutely proven wrong by science. and all international scientific consensus.” The child psychologist who just released a new book, For what ? Short psychology lessons for children from 4 to 7 years old, to Dunod editions, has obviously not finished talking about her. In the comments, Internet users reacted mostly negatively to the words of the psychologist, while a minority validates her words. She is accused of denying the existence of HPI people and of not really understanding what this diagnosis means.