What are the Limits of Psychiatry ? / Jusqu'ou la psychiatrie peut-elle soigner ?

On the one hand, an ever increasing demand: a six fold increase in the number of cases of depression within the last thirty years, a quarter of patients seen by general practitioners suffering from some form of psychiatric trouble, etc. On the other hand, widespread agreement that the profession in is the grip of a crisis. CorporatI'm, sectors working in isolation, ineffective central organisation, an absence of professional consensus among the different practitioners: the result is that the supply is badly equipped to deal with the demand.What are the origins of this crisis ? Does it run as deep as the very foundations and identity of psychiatry itself ? In particular, what can be done to transform this natural diversity into a real strength ? Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Marie-Christine Hardy-Baylé works at the André-Mignot hospital, and is a professor of medicine at the University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. She heads the Association for the Promotion of Public Health of Yvelines Sud. She has notably published, with Pierre Hardy, Manic Depressive: The Story of Pierre.A hospital director, Christine Bronnec, is in charge of the ANEAS project to evaluate psychiatric needs, and is co-president of the Association for the Promotion of Public Health of Yvelines Sud.