INTERVIEW – For psychiatrist Marie-France Hirigoyen, they often serve as witnesses or objects of blackmail in divorce. How to protect them?
Today, one of the two couples is getting divorced. But if marital breakdown has become a quasi-social norm, the violence it often causes in the psychological lives of children remains a blind spot in multiple divorces. In her new essay, psychiatrist Marie-France Hirigoyen pays attention to all forms of violence and exposure in her daily life in her office about the suffering of children who have witnessed the separation of their parents. Twenty-five years after her pioneering book on moral harassment, she warns of the psychological damage when parents have custody disputes and calls for more effective mediation campaigns.
Madame Figaro. – Why does the topic of childhood at risk in the face of conflictual parental separations mobilize you today? Marie-France Hirigoyen. – I write from my clinical experience, which gives me a good vantage point to look at everyday suffering. Since my first book on terrorism…
Source: Le Figaro
