Aim : Our qualitative study aims to describe the narrative effects of a psycho-oncology support protocol based on the pictorial productions of one family caregiver (Mrs. Rose, aged 70), who had promulgated care for her husband suffering from an incurable cancer. Material and methods : The protocol around the pictorial figuration consists of four steps (times): a preliminary exploratory interview (T1), a first encounter around pictorial creation (T2), a second encounter more in deep around pictorial creation (T3) and finally, a final interview (T4).We first used the software T-LAB version 9.1.3, a linguistic and statistical tool for text analysis. In this research, we used co-occurrence relationships and word associations recalling moments of narrative structures, according to the humanistic/existential tradition. Findings : We showed the presence of the narrative effects before and after artistic work on the psychological problems inherent in the experience of caregiver and in particular on the anguish of death. The romantic dimension of the story seems to be able to withstand Mrs. Rose’s tragic narrative. Conclusion : “Psychic work with pictorial production” can enable the caregiver to depict love and death through a personal narrative borrowing from the narrative universe of romanticism and its existential issues.