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The play in family is sign of a correct functioning of the family psychic apparatus: anchored in the culture, it is in connection with the “family thought”, an assistance with the construction of temporality and takes part in the psychic transmission. The play seems to be a regulator and organizer of the family psychic life. It is a entertaining and creative activity which is played in the family relations and finds its source in the family bonds. Family play allows a story to be told so that the history can be related. However, some families seem to have lost their capacities to play or appear unable to do so. Sadness, repetitive acts and violence replace smiles and statements and concern all the members of the family. The psychoanalytical family therapy allows these families, in a group’space and thanks to psychoanalytical work, to find their capacities of representation and their play qualities, necessary conditions of a psychic correct operation of each one and of all together.