French psychiatry

Michel Botbol

doi:10.1192/S1749367600001454

French psychiatry

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018

Michel Botbol

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Michel Botbol*: Affiliation:
World Psychiatric Association Zonal Representative for Western Europe (Zone 6); Chair of the Therapeutic Section of the Child and Adolescent College of the French Federation of Psychiatry, 116 Rue du Moulin des Pres, 75013 Paris, France, email mbotbol@wanadoo.fr

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French psychiatry is currently facing a period of profound change, as many of what were considered its most specific characteristics and traditions have been called into question. It is therefore difficult to draw a profile of French psychiatry, because it has to take into account a radical splitting between, on the one hand, what is still the common profile of most French psychiatrists and, on the other, the new model imposed by stakeholders and policy makers who want French psychiatry to take on a more Anglo-Saxon profile, with evidence-based practice coming to the fore, for instance.

Type: Country profiles
Information: International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 14 - 16

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