Le script familial comme levier thérapeutique

Abstract

J. Byng Hall's family script helps me to venture systemic hypotheses and to test them in the relationship with the patient system. For me, it works as a vertebral column that gives me flexibility and adaptability in my clinical works, while enabling me to maintain a guideline. I link then theoretical concepts to it. These theoretical and practical links help me to analyse further the scripts involved in the difficulties, to develop and test hypotheses, and to find strategies for the system. This will be illustrated by a clinical example. J. Byng Hall's family script consists of two axes. the «temporal» axe includes the functioning (the how) «here and now» and its transmission from generation to generation. Principally, this axe is analysed with the script concept. The «emotional» axe includes the affective intrapsychic and inter relational functioning. It is analysed by the style of relationship and the secure family base. A therapist's role is to restore primary family security and then to support the family or the person in rewriting its script.