ABSTRACT
The chapter is based on the experience of having set up a clinical service for families living through processes of separation and divorce as well as subsequent family reconstruction. The service was set up for any child referred with psychological difficulties relating to a parental divorce. Out of a range of presenting problems described briefly the chapter identifies three main groupings of post divorce parental relationship presenting themselves for psychological disentangling. The first group contains ongoing conflict laden relationships, which include narratives that disqualify the child's experience in favour of a personal slant preferred by one parent. The second group lacks narratives or deny the children in the family the right to a story. The third grouping consists of parents who have remained entangled with their spouses, preoccupied with anxieties about the care offered to their child in the context of contact visits.
