The irresistible rise of an abolished discipline: Neuropsychiatry in France (1968-2018) ...

The future of psychiatry is a regular concern for the profession. This quest for identity, often tinged with references to human values, such as ethics, aims to defend such an approach against such a reference system. In the background, the scientific evolution of psychiatry in favor of neuroscience emerges as a sense of threat. The fear would then be a dissolution of psychiatry within (too) medicalized neuropsychiatry. Indeed, this discipline, though abolished during the reworking of medical studies, following the events of May 68 in France, seems more alive than ever. We will see that the conception of the nature of disorders, between neurogenesis and psychogenesis, is at the heart of this problem, and has been raging for a long time. But if fears and debates are willingly exposed in the press, few messages of hope and reconciliation between neurology and psychiatry find their place. This will be the object of our reflection, which aims to defend the interest of an integrative approach in (neuro?) psychiatry without sacrificing scientific knowledge or the dynamics of subjective truth to the achievement of our art. (C) 2019 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.