Abstract

LAFAYE, Caroline Guibet. How do psychiatrics consider nowadays “the” mental illness?. Sociologia [online]. 2016, vol.31, pp.127-148. ISSN 0872-3419.

The medical literature offers several interpretations of mental disease. We conduct a sociological survey to grasp from empirical data current representations of disease, in particular of psychosis, assumed by French psychiatrists. We choose to ask a general question to medicals. We described seven kinds of attitudes

Keywords : mental disease; psychosis; mental suffering.

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