Transformations in the Mental Health Sector: Between the Science and the Subject
This article examines the historical transformations of the mental health sector, mostly from a European, French speaking point of view, and in particular France and Belgium. It describes the institutional and material mutations of the mental health sector and, more specifically, the rise of the DSM, its ideology and social consequences. Ultimately, these transformations can be considered in terms of opposing orientations currently dominating the field : On the one hand, the scientific approach that would ideally rid itself of the human subject and, on the other hand, an approach that holds subjectivity as essential and irreducible.