Psychiatrist

Or the specialist physician in psychiatry and psychotherapy diagnose, treat and try to prevent the mental diseases, the mental health disorders and the emotional disorders of organic, emotional or situational origin (Névrose, Psychose, Phobie, Schizophrénie, Dépression, Angoisse, psychosomatic Maladies, etc). They specialize in the treatment of the adults or that of the children and teenagers, even in both. Their patients are sent by their family practitioner, consult of their own initiative or sometimes also under the pressure of their family, their employer or their entourage. The specialists in Psychiatry and Psychothérapie can practice in a private cabinet or consider a hospital or institutional career. They collaborate with multi-field teams made up of Psychologue S, Psychomotricien S, educational S, Enseignant S, Logopédiste S, etc

Activities

Consultation and diagnosis

  • to receive in consultation of the people who present sufferings morals, behavioral problems or training, personal and relational problems, disorders of the anxiety, dependences, etc;

  • to analyze their physical and mental health condition by talks and by means of diagnostic tests (neurological examination), by taking account of the aspects biological, psychic, psychosomatic, environmental and social;
  • to establish the nature and the gravity of the psychic or mental, conscious dysfonctions or not, and to formulate clear goals of intervention;

Treatments

  • to establish a relationship of trust with the patients on the basis of psychiatric talks, with an aim of accompanying them in their advance towards the cure and the development of their autonomy;

  • to resort, according to the case, to various forms of therapy (psychoanalysis, group therapies, couple, family, treatments cognitivo-behavioral, methods of relieving…) ;
  • so necessary, to supplement the psychotherapeutic approach by a medicamentous treatment (antidepressants, antipsychotic, tranquillizing);
  • to collaborate with the close relations, the family, etc;

The Councils and expertise

  • to collaborate with doctors of other disciplines, other health professionals and the social one;

  • to propose precautionary measures in social environments and cultural and to collaborate in their realization;
  • to advise various civil and legal authorities on the questions touching with the repercussions of disorders and psychic affections (expertise for the courts, AI, etc).

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