Citation

Fontaine M. Rev. Med. Liege 2000; 55(1): 27-34.

Vernacular Title

L'enfance en danger.

Affiliation

Service de Psychiatrie, Université de Liège.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Hopital De Baviere)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10803035

Abstract

Child abuse is a human production resulting from the failure of three essential characteristics of the human condition: the possibility of attachment, speech and the capacity to love. It is perpetuated though trans-generational transmission which traps the individual in an obvious incapacity to occupy a people position, inducing confusion of the roles and statute of the place of each in the family or in the society but more especially in the interpersonal relation. The child abuse must be seen by the professional as an obvious incapacity of the victims but also of their abuser, who are often them-selves former abused children, to develop a relation based on the respect and the love of others. The therapy is first of all an accompaniment of one and the other towards the differentiation and the possibility of installation of stable and reliable constructive representations. In short, an opening towards the expression of the denial of suffering and the rebuilding of a new ideology based on love and creativity.

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