`titrebSummary`/titrebThe meeting of Family and Caregivers in psychiatry often has negative connotations for both sides from the start. Fear, on the part of the caregivers, of the emotional unfurling of ambivalence and double binds, disturbing a diagnostic and therapeutic practice classically founded on separation. Fear, for the family, of the accusing, blaming ill-will that has long served to keep therapeutic construction at a distance.But an integrating « Multi-partner therapy », wherein each of the actors involved must discover his own resources and investigate the mechanisms of his own psychical coherence, has some benefits, both for the patient’s social prognosis and the prevention of secondary pathologies induced by the suffering of the entourage... Still, it is necessary to eradicate the prejudices of the past, which are thick-skinned and insidiously persist in poisoning the natural relations between the inevitable protagonists of any coherent treatment aimed at integration and de-stigmatisation.