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This presentation discusses the not uncommon phenomenon of children, more often latency boys, who develop tummy pains to avoid having to go to school. The choice of organ as an expression of an unconscious conflict is considered from a developmental, psychoanalytic and neuroscience point of view, within the context of the mother-child relationship.