La démocratie sanitaire à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie : comment « faire une place » à un « usager » dans un réseau de professionnels en santé mentale ?

Manifold studies in the field of health deal with the engagement of lay people in the professional sphere. Psychiatry is an interesting case where this integration policy is put to test. With the approach of political anthropology of mental health, attentive to the categorization of users, this pape...

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Main Author: Erwan Autès
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé
Series:Anthropologie & Santé
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/1311
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Summary:Manifold studies in the field of health deal with the engagement of lay people in the professional sphere. Psychiatry is an interesting case where this integration policy is put to test. With the approach of political anthropology of mental health, attentive to the categorization of users, this paper focuses on a local political project of user participation and lay engagement in a mental health network. The results show the paradoxes of integrating former “patients” in a network of mental health professionals and outline a typology of inclusive and segregated mechanisms.
ISSN:2111-5028