ABSTRACT
The therapeutic affect, in the work of applied psychoanalysis, concerns different levels for the included persons: the child and the parents. The first step for children is to become aware that the settings they find themselves in, and the therapists to whom their parents present them, are able to contain their emotions and understand their problems. Often children very quickly feel that they are considered as human beings, able and allowed to express their feelings, and that the aim of the consultation is to understand what is going on and to lessen their suffering. Concerning the traumatic events, it is important to recognize them and admit their importance for the child. There are three principal types of events, which the child is unable to mentalize and integrate without help: transgenerational problems, traumatic events and a category of mixed origin: cumulative little traumas to which the parents react inappropriately often because of troubled relations with their own parents.
