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"At a certain age, a healthy person no longer needs his parents"

2021-12-02T12:21:47.002Z


INTERVIEW - In his book Your parents are no longer your parents, the psychopractor Emmanuel Ballet de Coquereaumont encourages parents of adults to put an end to their "parental role".


LE FIGARO.

- In your book, you invoke the notion of "

parental function

", how do you define it?

Emmanuel BALLET DE COQUEREAUMONT.

-

This brings together the missions of the father and the mother: the development of the educational framework.

And those of mom and dad: emotional missions.

All aiming to protect the child, to meet his vital and relational needs (to express himself, to be recognized and valued) and to allow him to become who he is.

If all these missions continue to be carried out in adulthood, which begins at around 28 years of age, at the end of psychic adolescence, it is problematic.

From this age, the child must consider himself as an ex-child.

In terms of function, no parentage.

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Source: lefigaro

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