ABSTRACT
The disturbance in the child has unconscious determinants, but it also has to do with the parents' unconscious: the transindividual status of the unconscious is fundamentally grounded upon the primary familial bonds. Perhaps Anna Freud and her school have been, among all the analysts that work with children, the most committed to a systematic approach to working with the parents in parallel to the treatment of the child designated as "the patient", broadly following the principles that Anna Freud established for working with children. It is true, that psychoanalysis with children offers a privileged position to the analyst, who enables him or her to learn, from the testimonies of children and parents, the points of contact of the unique tragedies that each of them experiences differently. It is true that some symptoms, syndromes, and clinical presentations have increased in their statistical frequency, as social conditions and technological advances have promoted particular individual and familial disruptions.
