With many causes, the incidence of obesity has increased in recent years. Considering families in the context of Obesity, understanding its etiology and maintenance is fundamental. This study aims to comprehend the way parents of obese children experience their parenthood and the way they associate these experiences to the development of their children's Self. This is a clinical and qualitative research that employs the Transfer Narratives as the methodological strategy and Winnicott's psychoanalysis as the theoretical framework. Five families participated in this study. Each of them consisted of a father, a mother and a child diagnosed with Obesity. One meeting was held with each group of parents, so as to present the research and to collect demographic data. Afterwards, a meeting with each father and mother, separately, were held in order to introduce some cards from the Children's Thematic Apperception Testanimal form (CAT-A), whose aim was to encourage them to talk about the experience of being a mother/father. The same cards were presented to the children, who were asked to tell a story about each of them. The data, which were analyzed according to the method of free material inspection, were presented in the form of Transfer Narratives and interpreted by means of Winnicott's Psychoanalysis. All ethical aspects were considered, and the names presented are fictitious. The analysis of the narratives indicated that children represent, by means of putting on weight, the internalization of the family conflict and of the difficulty in achieving autonomy. Both parents and children had difficulties in integrating their affection into the Self, especially the hostile ones, projecting the latter in the external environment, for considering them threatening to themselves and to their families. The parental experiences directly influence the children's Self, because patents do not manage to assist their children in developing their creativity, for these adults do not feel prepared to impose a firm and loving restraint of infantile impulses, which, otherwise, could provide room for spontaneity without it been felt as a threat to the family. Due to the imperative for protecting family environment, the differences among family members are not accepted, for they could be sources of conflict that put in danger the group's existence. Without the possibility to differentiate themselves from their parents, children remain dependent upon them, felling unable to live in an external world, because they cannot rely on creativity to help them in times of trouble. In such context, children do not develop their symbolic capacity, for the tight control of their aggressiveness does not lead to the end to the dyadic relationship between mother and child and their differentiation. Children are increasingly afraid that, when their dependent relationship with their parents is over, they will need to be autonomous, without feeling prepared to be so. Parental figures cannot be symbolically introjected, but only in a correct manner: by means o...