The overflow of Erinyes: treating at the risk of killing

Based on the psychotherapies of a mother and her adolescent daughter, the article focuses on the clinical signs of maternal madness when it seizes upon the child as object to be healed. The author confirms the validity of the Münchausen syndrome by proxy in the field of mental illness, whereby the parent artificially creates psychological disturbances in her child’s identity in order to confine her in a need for care which is nothing other than the mark of a deadly fusional possession.