La pair-aidance en psychiatrie : se rétablir, innover et donner du sens

Peer support professionals belong to the new players in mental healthcare. They enrich professional practices and healthcare offering. They bring hope since they are living witnesses of recovery, and contribute with their deep knowledge of this concept, its stages and the elements, behaviours and environments that foster its process. They enable the paradigm shift that would help people to step out of their patient status to become their true self, without being limited by the disease, but with the ability to live a chosen, satisfactory and fulfilling life. They could be the drivers to create new recovery-oriented programmes and practices, which are unfortunately much too rare today, and help catch up France's delay in this area. This is absolutely possible under the condition that peer support professionals get truly recognised for their role and find their true position as part of the healthcare community.