This article deals with the theoretical model of integration process. The aim is to compare theory with clinic through the study of a migrant child, which present an elective muteness at school. The integration process seeks to highlight how groupals and intersubjectives situations are articulated to psychical reality. This articulation can help to the transitionnalisation of the individual experiences and thus support their integration. But all groups do not have the same potential of transitionnalisation. The family psychic apparatus seems to be the most appropriate agency for resolving in a creative way individual suffering. © 2009 Société française de psychologie. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits réservés.

Migrant child Muteness Groupal psychic apparatus Transitional space Integration process

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