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The birth of a family is an intense period of changes induced by the indispensable reorganization of the family. The baby’s arrival wakes the family history up and this helps the psychic heritage to re-emerge. This needs to be reworked and transformed to build the new families a link in the generational chain. But sometimes, this collective metamorphosis is blocked by traumatic reunions with an infantile non-elaborated material or a generational material encrypted by families This time of abrupt openness of the “unconscious” is a favourable period to free, for example, the “ghost’s work” which threatens to alienate new family links into generational confusion and confused parenthood. Psychoanalytic family therapy accompanies these phenomenon of regression and allows generational and individual archaic material to be transformed.