Units

Unit of Developmental and Family Psychology

The principal topics of the unit are 1° perinatal psychology (parental experience of the pregnancy and the delivery, study on the attachement child-parent, premature delivery, impact of the post-partum depression on the child,...) 2° child psychology (impact of day nursery on the child, impact of divorce on the child, construction of the notion of time in child, gifted children, development in preterm infants), 3° adolescent's psychology (impact of divorce on the adolescent, identity problems in adolescents, deviances (drug addiction, suicide attempt...), 4° family psychology (new parentality, infertility, female identity, menopause and andropause).

Projetcs

Gestational surrogacy. Dialogue between filiations and parenthood.

Gestational surrogacy is de most controversial procedures in the field of assisted reproduction. To understand these complex experiences, we did develop a new theoretical paradigm articulating the concept of filiations and parenthood. Different disciplines are connected into a matrix model. This model  allows us to reassess our representations of the family concept at a time where reproduction, gestation and birth are changing.

Longitudinal study of couples asking for medical assistance in procreation resorting to a ''carrying mother''

Longitudinal study of couples asking for medical assistance in procreation resorting to a  ''carrying mother''

Impact of a therapeutic setting on children living in institutional care.

This study addresses the institutional care of children suffering from behavioral troubles and/or exposed to parental failures. When they are placed, these children show delays at different levels of  their intellectual, linguistic, interpersonal and socio-emotional developments. We want to demonstrate how our multi-disciplinary therapeutic  settings allow recovery of psychic process, more secure attachment and less disorganized identification. In parallel, we identify some elements in family dynamics, that are playing a role both in risk factor or protection for physical and mental health of family members.