Psychotherapeutic workshops with families of hospitalized patients The author presents his work coordinating psychotherapeutic workshops with families who have admitted their adult children to a day care center because of moderate to severe intellectual and physical disabilities with which they can no longer cope at home. He reviews the difficulties of this chronic problem from the first requests for admission, to the process of adaptation to the institution for patients and their families and the need for these workshops. He describes the issues families report, the feelings of ambivalence, anxiety, and guilt, among which social silence stands out in relation to the setting up of interfamily support networks and what the workshops provide for the siblings.