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Au cœur de cet écrit co-existe la rupture et le lien. Comment le lien client/praticien se construit fragilement dans la thérapie d’un enfant arrivé suite à un deuil traumatique, en rupture de contact. Comment l’absence longue du thérapeute, sans créer de rupture, va favoriser paradoxalement, chez l’enfant, la mobilisation de ses ressources pour reprendre contact en lien et de façon ajustée avec l’autre et son environnement. Comment cette séparation, en gardant le lien grâce aux textos, va permettre à l’enfant d’expérimenter positivement l’absence, devenant ainsi acteur de sa thérapie.

Rupture and bonding are at the heart of this article. It deals with how the client/practitioner relationship was built on fragile ground in therapy with a child client who was born in an environment where there had been traumatic grieving and a rupture of contact. The author explains how the therapist’s long absence (without creating rupture), had paradoxically encouraged the child to mobilize his resources to recreate contact in an adjusted manner with others and his environment. She also looks at how this physical separation (yet with contact maintained via text messages) would enable the child to positively experiment with absence and become an active player in his therapy.