Psychiatry, mental health, mental disability: time for some necessary clarifications

What child and adolescent psychiatry in France for the second quarter of the 21stcentury? An AI-assisted qualitative action research study

“…What these papers, reports or action plans have in common is their focus on mental health much more than on psychiatry. Indeed, because prevention is the most efficient way to deal with CAP problems, promotion of mental health appears legitimately as a priority, and this even if the concept of mental health itself is not so clear (12). Some authors go very far in this direction, proposing for instance that "care is not contingent on a categorical diagnosis but aligned with the staging model of mental illness" (1).…”

Neuroscience-based Psychiatric Assessments of Criminal Responsibility: Beyond Self-Report?

“…34 They have a shared history, but during the second half of the twentieth century their ways parted. 35 While psychiatry has more to do with behavior and mental states, 36 neurology tends to be more focused on organic changes, which are not limited to the central nervous system, but also concern the entire peripheral nervous system (e.g., back pain due to a herniated disk and carpal tunnel syndrome). One could argue that while neurologists and psychiatrists share an interest in mental capacities (which can be undermined by, for example, dementia), psychiatrists are more interested in mental content.…”

What is a “Maison des Adolescents”? A history of integrated youth health care services in France

“…MDA guidelines were updated in 2016 to address these points (Cottin, 2016 Marcelli, argue that the overall good health status of teenagers has already been proved and that the key requirements are to provide professionals with psychoanalytic supervision and to further improve their teamwork inside and outside MDAs (Marcelli, 2011). This view is contradicted by psychiatrists from the public health field, who argue that the time has come to distinguish the meanings of "well-being," "mental health" and "mental disability" (Falissard, Monégat, & Harper, 2017). Others contend that in a context of scarce economic resources and universal health insurance coverage, psychiatrists ought to be delineating relevant medical priorities and attempting to detect adolescents' mental disorders earlier (Falissard, 2016).…”