Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Individual times and family time at various ages of life. - If all of us are born one day, growing, getting older, the family, as an emotional and economical ensemble of deeply interconnected individuals, will also be lead in this temporal flux. As family therapists, we need to question the intersections that exist between the phases through which every family members is passing and through which is passing the family as a whole: how each individual relation to time is influencing the family functioning and how does its own organization interfere with the individual developments ? What is the kind of chronology to which the family refers itself? What is the degree of autonomy and of dependency that exist between individual and systemic times ? The author discusses these temporal aspects of family life with some examples. © Medecine et Hygiene. |
