ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a critical reflection on the dominant way of exercising the children’s clinic as a captive practice and oppression of child power. The approach offers help to free the practice from its entrapment and constraints to enable life to express itself. Towards that end, a review is undertaken of current assumptions on three different dimensions: nature and culture; the family and the familiar; the story: the therapist and the child in conversation, the child as “consultant to the consultant”. An attempt is made to create pathways in the clinic characterized by their revolutionary potency, and map out trajectories, thus enabling the exploration of possible new worlds.
