Like families, psychoanalytical ideas and practices have become increasingly complex and varied. If the typical cure remains a central reference, it is no longer in the foreground and young psychoanalysts increasingly offer group therapies, among which family therapy takes a specific place.

Patients themselves have changed and are no longer surprised that their whole family is concerned by their own problems. More and more often families choose this therapeutic approach especially when one of its members suffers a psychic disorganization which also affects the others.

It concerns nonetheless the families at risk such as recomposed families, adoptive ones or those concerned by medically assisted procreation, but also the ones where links are unstable or damaged.

Therapy then often strengthens these links and the family self while developing at everyone's scale the individuation process.

We observe clinically that the traditional roles and functions within the family become more and more uncertain and that the identity limits are more blurred than ever. These family symptoms reflect the current social changes as much as they influence them. We will examine the contribution of the links theory (and the technical demands that it involves) to allow, deep in the heart of family intimacy, the development of active therapeutical adjustments within the family.