Individual systems-oriented psychotherapy: a therapy without family? - Pursuing and deepening the reflections of a task force of the CEF in Lausanne dedicated to individual systems-oriented psychotherapy, the author raises the question of the legitimacy of such a practice for systemic therapists : are systemic thought and clinical practice to be allowed to take an interest in the individual ? The ideological stakes having been better identified, the article can address the methodological and technical issues involved in this type of psychotherapy, and more succinctly, those of training in such a practice.