Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Referring to a clinical situation approached as a family therapist, we will point out the difficulties that can occur to a parent having great psychical suffering, while a symptom appears at his child. The workshop proposes a reflection upon the matching of patients and therapists representations and their impact on the functioning of a family. Several questions will be considered, starting from the diagnostic question: how to distinguish psychical inheritance and genetic heredity? How to support the child and its family without minimizing the difficulties? How to support the child's development and the parental abilities while avoiding to intensify the selffulfilling prophecy («transmission has occurred») and without inhibiting the creative capacities of all the concerned actors (other parent, brother/sister, nursing staff)?. |
