Réalités des urgences en psychiatrie

Abstract

In our society, psychiatry is dispensed more and more according to urgency and its temporality, to such an extent that tackling psychiatric emergency and crisis situations has become vital to the elaboration of a coherent mental health policy. The multiple clinical and psychopathological profiles of psychiatric emergencies and their impact on the lives of those persons enduring them fully justify the elaboration of clinical skills and treatment networks appropriate to a practice focused on therapeutic alliance and intersubjective processes. The reality of psychiatric emergencies thus reveals multiple facets.