Savoir, pouvoir, éthique en psychiatrie

If psychiatry's object is subjectivity (normal and pathologic), and its ways intersubjectivity: does its method and, in another way, its deontology guaranties ethics? What if psychic care were the topic of many ethical risks due to the inherent normativity of psychiatric power? What if ethics in psychiatry required a higher level of questioning and carefulness considering its unthoughts (linked to its lack of “self care” practice) or its prejudgements (the building of an illusion of truth)? We will propose to put into perspective these problems with some specific post-modern questions in psychiatry: laws, motivational tools, everyday little-known or misused ethics, and social evolution.