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The author looks at the conditions required to put family history into narrative within the framework of psychoanalytic family therapy (PFT). By underlining the fictional dimension of the account, and the heirs’ place as historians, she explores the necessary building of the traumatic events, which the most suffering families have lived through. Using a PFT example, the method is studied from the point of view of the process enabled by it, thanks to the various deposits and transformations of the elements transferred onto the family ‘s therapists who rework theses elements with other therapists. This process corresponds to the stage when the raw feelings are picked up by the therapist and translated into a structure representing “a possible past”. She’ll raise the subject of the original story’s structural dimension, its repetition and chronicity effects as well as the conditions of its mobilisation in the therapeutic process using the primary notion of “original family schemes”.