Psychiatrie Et Vie Sociale

La notion de rétablissement en psychiatrie, développée et illustrée ici par des auteurs de différents pays, redonne l'espoir, aux 500 000 personnes en France souffrant d'une maladie psychiatrique grave, qu'on peut apprendre à vivre avec, se rétablir et retrouver une vraie place dans la société. Ce livre offre une perspective européenne et internationale sur le rétablissement, l'inclusion sociale et l'empowerment dans le domaine de la santé mentale. Ces trois concepts sont au centre d'un débat né du constat de l'échec de nos sociétés occidentales contemporaines à pleinement réintégrer les personnes qui ont été confrontées par un trouble psychique. En particulier, le livre examine les implications de l'accès à la formation tout au long de la vie pour lier ces trois concepts en un tout cohérent. Car, ensemble, ils contribuent à un nouveau paradigme qui situe l'usager de la psychiatrie comme moteur de sa propre vie, au sein d'une collectivité dans laquelle il est citoyen à part entière et dans laquelle les services de santé mentale sont configurés de manière à soutenir son autonomie plutôt que de perpétuer son rôle traditionnel de " patient ". Cet ouvrage sort simultanément, le 1er mars 2012, à Londres en langue anglaise : P. Ryan, S. Ramon & T. Greacen - Empowerment, Lifelong Learning and Recovery in Mental Health: Towards a New Paradigm. London, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.

Franco Basaglia (1924-1980) was an Italian psychiatrist and activist who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals and pioneered new ideas about mental health and its treatment. Basaglia was also one of the principal proponents of Italy's Law 180, which effectively closed down large mental hospitals in Italy. His ideas and his disciples have had a decisive influence in the move away from institutional care in many parts of the world, particularly in continental Europe and South America. However, Basaglia is strikingly absent from the literature in Germanic and Anglophone psychiatry. Most of the literature about Basaglia in the last 40 years has been published by his followers and supporters and has often been largely positive, with little exploration of differing responses or possible limitations of his model. Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community provides an overview of current thinking and the international influence of Franco Basaglia. This resource draws on the combined knowledge of clinicians, policy makers, historians, and social scientists, including a handful of Basaglia's collaborators. It provides an in-depth understanding and critical analysis of the various applications of his thinking worldwide. Organised into three broad sections, chapters examine Basaglia's work and influence in Italy; in the 'Basaglian' countries of Europe and South America; and in those countries where his influence has either been rejected or significantly modified. The Editors bring together the contributions and draw out the important messages (both positive and negative) for current clinical practice and development within international mental health services.

In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.

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“The Hidden Patients” looks at questions of gender in psychiatric publications on the colonial Maghreb, which described “normal” and “abnormal” forms of behaviour among the colonised and compared these findings to descriptions of Europeans who had been diagnosed with psychiatric “abnormalities”. Many psychiatric experts claimed that Muslim women rarely went “mad” and that they only accounted for a negligible percentage of the patients cared for by colonial psychiatrists. Consequently, relatively little space was dedicated to female Muslim patients in the theoretical source material, even though case studies and statistics clearly showed that it was mainly an imaginary absence and that it contradicted the everyday experiences of the psychiatrists.