Le psychiatre et la pratique clinique de la psychiatrie dans un environnement incertain : penser à l’avenir The Psychiatrist and the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry in an Uncertain Environment: Looking Ahead

The CPA wanted also to invite psychiatrists to pause and allow themselves a period of recollection on what they are in an era of changing conceptual, organizational, and philosophical issues on the shape of psychiatry—a revolutionary period driven by technological advance. By its nature, a period of revolution is a period of uncertainty. Added to the fact that our health system is experiencing economic pressures and is being reexamined (commissions and committees over commissions and committees), the mix of new diagnostic and treatment possibilities and the lack of appropriate resources to support them is very much evident and adds to the uncertainty.