Shortage of psychiatrists, dissatisfaction of caregivers, clinical research at half mast, increase in the prevalence of disorders, painful care pathways, sacrificed patients and families in distress, psychiatry is close to the breaking point.
Beyond the inventory and the lack of resources, what kind of psychiatry do we dream of tomorrow? What are the promising innovations?
Surrounded by the best experts – psychiatrists, but also researchers, an epidemiologist, a director of the WHO Mental Health Program, a public prosecutor –, Patrick Lemoine and Boris Cyrulnik debate issues that cannot be ignored today: the prevention of among children and adolescents, excessively prescribed psychotropic drugs, reimbursement of psychologists, recognition of psychiatry as a crossroads discipline, the need to open up to other approaches, even those called “alternatives”.
It is time to make psychiatry a real priority, but also to rebuild and renew it.
For a new psychiatry, proposals
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