Scelles, Régine <br/><br/>
Talking or Not Talking in the Family: The Process of Subjectivization of a Brother or Sister’s Handicap 

 -  2008.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> With reference to both clinical experience and research on the subject of a handicapped child’s brothers and sisters, the author evokes the question of what hinders and/or possibly favours the pleasure that can be experienced in « talking and thinking about it together » by other children in the same family. She considers the most explicit manifestations of the fraternal bond in families with a handicapped child and discusses both the transforming effect of speech on trauma and the defensive and temporarily protective function of « keeping silent ». She concludes by considering the potential role played by narration between children regarding a brother or sister’s handicap.