Secrets de famille, folie de l'adolescent

Abstract

Sometimes, family history and also parents history has been touched by painful events that could not be elaborated. These events became unsaid topics for parents and secrets for children. Family secrets work as a family protection mechanism that protect family from pain and shame linked to past events. When an adolescent seeking for is own identity touches one of these sensitive points, he first tries to avoid it. But when it's impossible for him to avoid facing these parts of family history, bound by the prohibition to know and the impossibility not to be aware, the adolescent may develop loudly delusional symptoms as an attempt to resolve this conflict.