French psychiatry

Jacques Lacan and French psychiatry

Jacques Lacan died in September 1981 at the age of 81. The French press, the mass media and several members of the French government all paid him tribute. For several years his name had been linked with that of Sigmund Freud, and he was often referred to as the French Freud. Students of medicine and the social sciences studied his writings, or pretended to read them. Even some secondary school ...

Famine: the distant shadow over French psychiatry.

Factors influencing French medical students towards a career in psychiatry.

BACKGROUND There is a need to increase the recruitment to psychiatry in France. Our aim in this study was to compare factors influencing career choice between French medical students considering and not considering psychiatry as a specialty. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Quantitative cross-sectional online survey on 145 French students in their last year of medical school. RESULTS 22.7% of our sampl...

Pharmacogenomics approach in psychiatry disorders

Psychiatric disorders are important health issues in the world, and their management is facing some serious challenges. Drugs that are widely used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers, are often associated with many side effects and are adequately effective only in a small proportion of patients. Many factors, including genet...

God Psychiatry Versus Good Psychiatry

Since psychiatry often requires an intimate, informal dialogue between patient and doctor, can psychiatrists afford to retain the remote, omnipotent image which they have inherited?