Representations of psychosis and use of constraint
Psychiatry in France has been influenced by the analytical/psychoanalytical tradition that is less pregnant in other countries. Contrasting with other medical disciplines, psychiatry is the only in France able to impose medical care to patients in some conditions. Is there [could it exist] a link between psychiatrists’ representations of mental diseases and the propensity to use constraint? I will explore this issue in the light of empirical data collected in the framework of a sociological survey undertaken between 2012 and 2013. Psychiatrists share three main representations of mental disease. Some correlations can be showed between the interpretations of these representations and the use of therapeutic constraint.