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Through this article the problem of child abuse is approached from the contradiction present in the relations of listening and coerción, and therapy and control. These relations are present in the legal, social and emotional contexts. The legal context comprises the rules which define our way of responding as behavior professionals with the purpose of providing children with immediate protection. Thus we ask: How do we facilitate for a family the externalization of a demand to be listened to if they have not asked for it? What meanings do the violence against a child takes for family members? What theoretical approach allows for a therapeutically process for these families? The intention of the article is to examine the psychosocial intervention from a psychodynamic approach, and to reflect on the role of listener, acknowledging that in the expressions of an abusive father or mother something must be constructed. This listening is realized from the start point of the experience of playing paying attention to the attachment relationship.