TY - BOOK AU - Scelles,Régine TI - Talking or Not Talking in the Family: The Process of Subjectivization of a Brother or Sister’s Handicap PY - 2008///. N1 - 96 N2 - 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 UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-psychanalyse-2008-2-page-485?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -