Évolution des attentes et des représentations en clinique dans les rapports entre psychiatrie et justice

Relationships are difficult between psychiatry and Justice. Psychiatry is regarded either as an enemy of freedom or as too liberal. One criticizes it for its disengagement from the hospital and for its responsibility regarding a so-called excess of hospital beds. The responsibility of Psychiatry in the accumulation in jails of mental patients is often denounced. However, since the birth of the diagnosis of mental disorders, psychiatry evolves by extending its field of competence beyond the recognized psychoses to an operative clinic in the borderline disorders. Our societies are not satisfied and ask the psychiatrist to be present in any violence and with each delinquent. Crime and psychiatric disorders are regularly confused. Are our societies sick of their fears while confusing in its representations crime and madness, care and punishment?