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Abstract
In peri-natal services, the treatment-teams are confronted with complex transferential situations related to the psychic modifications undergone by pregnant women. Feelings of love and hatred, fantaisies related to the woman's own body and/or that of the baby, and the narcissistic implications of prenancy at stake, subject care professionals to an environnement loaded with many instinctual requests. In this article, after having clarified the concepts of transference and counter-transference, we will discuss the pertinence of a thorough analysis of the countertransference of teams as a tool for better patient anderstanding and care. Finally, we will discurs the question of the institutional framework and the necessary conditions to anstain a working process of thought within care services.