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Society in crisis, psychiatry in crisis |
l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 79, Number 2, 147-50, Février 2003, LE LIT ET LE DIVAN
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Author(s) : Serge Kannas |
Summary : In France, psychiatry has been undergoing a far-reaching, many-faceted crisis for the past twenty years which has brought the discipline up against some ethical, clinical and organisational dilemmas. The debate around the psychiatry/mental health paradigm is a good illustration of this. To oversimplify, it could be said to set supporters of a more "withdrawn" medical or psychopathological psychiatry against those of a more "social, open" psychiatry which, lacking clear definition, carries the risk of social reductionism denying the very psychopathological fact. The author endeavours to show that the debate is not exclusive a rigid "either/or" but complementary and that psychiatric clinical practice and action present in borderline areas could encourage greater practical consensus. |
Keywords : crisis, psychiatry. |
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