Abstract
Psychiatric and psychoanalytic studies dealing with the family aetiology of drug addictions are multiplying, but most of them focuse on the nature of psychic traumas found in the family of addicts: secrets about filiation, pathological mourning, painful emigrations, hidden delinquency. The author detailes this research, then he develops two neglected aspects until now, of the family origin of drug addictions. The characteristics of the psychic transmission of family traumas (emotional lack of the parents, difficulty for addicts to separate from their parents, difficulty for parents to separate from the addict child) and the links between the circumstances of disclosure of a family secret and drug addiction.
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