ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to describe the method of treating dysfunctional couple and parent-child relationships by means of group therapy. The work of the therapeutic couple, provided that they are capable of continuously interpreting between them the themes that progressively emerge during the course of the sessions, has a value that is, per se, reparatory and containing, and also provides a model of bonding. The parental couples found it difficult to call their children by their names and talked about them as if their internal images of the children were vague and obscure. It became clear to the therapists that it was necessary to bring the children more into focus. The parental partners' feelings of having been damaged and their related sense of hurt drive them to project these feelings on to one another in the hope of eliciting concrete responses.
