How to live with a family secret?

Audio 48:30

Family history and its secrets © iStock / Megan Brady

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

50 min

Unspoken words, innuendos, silences… Family secrets have consequences both on those who wear them but also on those around them.

While it is difficult to talk about family history, a stillborn child, a ruined father, adultery or even rape, keeping the secret leads to stories that are passed on from parents to children. and which can poison several generations.

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How to reveal a family secret?

Should we say everything? 

With:

  • Yvonne Poncet-Bonnissol

    , psychoclinician, author of

    Secrets de famille, those silences that spoil our lives

    (Larousse)

  • Marie Lemeland

    , writer, creator with photographer Svend Andersen of

    the Bande de Bâtards project

    , a gallery of portraits and testimonies on family secrets linked to filiation

  • And a testimony collected by

    Raphaëlle Constant

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