TY - BOOK AU - Baticle,William AU - Hétier,Claire-Marie AU - Rottman,Hana TI - Brothers and sisters – separating to heal? PY - 2021///. N1 - 77 N2 - The 1996 French law advocating the maintenance of brothers’ and sisters’ community of life is often understood as a sine qua non injunction. This article brings together the observations of a multidisciplinary team (i.e. educators, psychologists and psychoanalysts) engaged for many years in foster care, revealing, through a quantitative and clinical analysis, a reality that qualifies this imperative. The authors demonstrate that in several cases, maintaining the sibling’s community of life contributes to the maintenance of the patho--logy of family ties and the subject’s alienation. However, arrangements can be devised where the separation of siblings is not synonymous with breaking family ties UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-dialogue-2021-4-page-141?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -