[Results of an epidemiological survey conducted with psychiatrists, general practitioners, liberal nurses and social workers in a mental health sector]. / Résultat d'une enquête épidémiologique effectuée auprès de psychiatres, d'omnipraticiens, d'infirmiers libéraux et de travailleurs sociaux exerçant au sein du secteur A4.

An epidemiological survey was carried out, amongst psychiatrists, general practitioners, social workers and liberal nurses, with a double aim. To determine the number of psychiatric cases followed or identified; these were classified according to DSMIII criteria (simplified for use by those interviewers little used to psychiatric jargon), essentially: dementia, depression, schizophrenia, other psychosis, other cases (neurosis, substance abuse, alcoholism). Another aim was to determine how the psychiatric care facilities were perceived and used by the person's interviewed. The results reveal a lack of information on their part, despite pst information given by us (systematic misappreciation?); as well as the lack of a desire to collaborate: the practitioners address their patients to the public health service (and preferentially for full-time hospitalisation) when they feel the case is beyond them.

[The psychotic, laws and the Law]. / Le psychotique, les lois et la Loi.

We relate some clinical examples of patients who went to hospital as offenders (murders). They were not condemned because they were mentally ill; we tried to demonstrate that article 64 of the French law is inadequate in reference to modern psychological, phenomenological and psycho-analytical discoveries. We relate cases of patients who harshly punished themselves because they were not convicted by the Law. The last observation induces the transition between the Law, as Lacan says, (the fundamental taboo of incest) and the laws put up by our societies.

[The image of women in a therapy group of alcoholics and neurotics]. / L'image de la femme dans un groupe thérapeutique d'alcooliques et de névrotiques.

We show a certain image of the woman as she is seen and "said" in a group of female and male neurotics and alcoolic patients. We relate the remarks that these patients are expressing and we completed our analysis with two questionnaires; the first one presents about 50 (fifty) concepts which usually qualifie the woman; the other one interrogates the social function of the woman. The image that the group gives us is either an image, or the image of "dangerous and feline animal". Buth the principal image is this of a devaluated, inferiore, human being, or on the contrary, she is seen as dangerous, phallic and "castrative".

[Psychotics and their bodies]. / Les psychotiques et leur corps.

We observed and other persons, too, (visitors, new patients...) the strange and particular physic aspect of lunatic people who are ill long since. The autonomy everybody seaks after, psychotic people loset it. The transformations of the psychoticbody appears as a trial to singularise and differentiate theirselves from the others. The few alluring aspect of these patients would signify the derogatory imago of a destroyed body, that does not be the mediator of the relationship to the other. Psychotic does not wish to please but want to be.