[On the family placement at the service of family therapy: 150 years of Medical-psychological annals].

The historic of families colony (Geel in Belgium) brought a great debate in the "Annales Medico-Psychologiques", 150 years ago. The controversy stay very actual between hospitalocentrisme orientation and deinstitutionalization movement. The economic motivations influence very often on the final orientation of the mental health system.