ABSTRACT
Family therapy during pregnancy, and in the first stages of children’s growth and development, is an opportunity to deal with issues associated with first object relationships and as such has an important preventive function. This first stage of development is a crucial one on which the organisation of the child’s physical and psychic functions are based. The pregnancy and birth of a sibling and the transition to parenthood are developments which are highly fluid and also offer many opportunities to reactivate previous insufficiently elaborated intra-psychic elements.
