[Hysteria, a product of society]. / L'hystérie, un produit d'origine sociétale.

According to Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1878), "the definition of hysteria has never been given and never will be". The plurality of symptoms and clinical manifestations accounts for the polymorphism of this disease. From the first descriptions in antiquity to the present day, hysteria remains unclassifiable and defies the laws of medicine. Yet there is a continuous thread to its history: each conception of hysteria reflects the cultural and social concerns of the time. The disease affects both men and women. Nevertheless, the etymology of the concept points to the female gender. The place of the woman, in public and in private, is to be compared with the treatment of these patients, ill in a body, in a gender, in an era.

[A specific unit for residents presenting psychiatric disorders]. / Une unité spécifique pour les résidents présentant des troubles psychiatriques.

Faced with the growing number of requests for the admission of patients with chronic psychiatric pathologies, a nursing home in Port-Louis has created the 'Normandie' unit to accomodate these residents. The special feature of the support provided and the organisation of the day-to-day routine requires caregivers to adopt a specific approach.