The authors are faced with the suffering of a North African family in front of two of their children presenting a multihandicap. This complex situation leads the therapists to work out, at the family's home, a group therapeutic framework with professionals of other institutions which intervene in the family. Close to the family's own way of thinking, this framework enables the therapists to reopen their blunted experience in search of representations of the culture of origin. This ethnopsychotherapeutic treatment allows the family to recreate its cultural envelop in order to face this mourning work which brings back other mournings past on by the transgenerational process.

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