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Six years ago, after having worked for around ten years in the field of adult psychiatry, I joined the child psychiatry sector within which, together with a nursing colleague, I am responsible for a mother-child balneotherapy group. I very rapidly began to reflect upon the vulnerability of the mothers undergoing this treatment and the way to understand their difficulties and identify their needs. Taking as my starting point the case of Matéo and his mother who we followed within the mother-child balneotherapy group, I would like to develop the way in which we dealt with the extremely invasive internal anxiety of this woman in order to help her forge a more secure bond with her child and to consider more widely the care offerings and the strategies we might devise to tackle the problems confronted by these mothers/women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]