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How can group practices find their place in institutions today while developing both in quality and diversity in spite of the reduction of budgets, which limits staff size and training opportunities? How can we recognize and support analytical group therapies at a time when the analytic approach is being challenged? This paper reviews the history of the creation of a new group setting, scenodrama, and of its role in the research unit on child and adolescent psychiatry at a day hospital/CATTP (Part-time Therapeutic Reception Center). Then, it discusses the origins and factors favoring such an initiative and its integration by the institution. Support for and resistances to this type of work will also be discussed. We will see how institutional spaces outside the treatment institution (i.e., scientific societies) can facilitate the study and recognition of a new setting created to respond to the specific difficulties of severe pathologies and pathologies of psychic containers. This analysis will follow a circular movement between the specific nature of scenodrama groups and the diversity of the institution. It proceeds from group containers to institutional containers that protect psychic envelopes. It illustrates how the institution is characterized by the diversity of multidisciplinary experiences. In conclusion, it discusses how multidisciplinarity exposes caregivers to difference and simultaneously stimulates participative creativity.