[Microprocesses in early dialogue. Strategies of autonomy].

The authors present a microanalytic study of holding and gaze interactions in 16 families (clinical and non-clinical), each including infant-mother, father and stranger dyads. They summarize the findings on holding and gaze engagement/disengagement of their structural study on the first two minutes of dialogue. They proceed to present the findings on the microevolution over the entire play: how dyadic engagement/disengagement stabilizes and terminates, or how it evolves to another organisation. They discuss the similarities of the clinical and microanalytic methods and suggest that microanalysis is a useful contribution to the clinical sciences.