Tsamparli, Anastasia <br/><br/>
Family crisis and twoness in psychoanalytic family therapy 

 -  2016.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> During crisis, family links are experienced as painful. During the crisis the Psychic family apparatus becomes the seat of revived intergenerational traumas. The capacity of the family to work through its suffering is at risk and as a consequence they may react by acting out, somatisation and attacks on their links (Bion, 1959). The family does not have the capacity to co-create an intersubjective/containing space or a “third”. In that case, the family organises their links around complementarity. The target of the present article is to show, through a clinical example, how a family in crisis organise their links with real thirds: their child as well as their therapist(s) in PFT.