This article aimed to understand the relationships inside the families and marriage as an institution in the perspective of the turning of the century. We intended to focus the perceptions of transformations that has occurred in the post-modern society in economic, social and psychological terms, searching in the Winnicott’s reference theoretical subsidies to better reflect on this subject. We approach the role of therapists in the context and show that marriage as well as therapy, might have a therapeutic potential if it is connected to a notion of mutation, flexibility for the new and different, space of interpersonal development and creativity.
marriage; holding; interpersonal development