Entre lecture et témoignage, l’oubli de notre histoire

Abstract

Psychiatrist practicing in prison, I propose to mix the testimony of my daily practice with the reading of two texts, one of Lacan, the other of Foucault. Indeed, I consider that psychiatry in prisons has no specificity. It merely refers the enlarged but always exact image of the ambiguities and structural aporias of psychiatry. I will begin by mentioning the Law on Constrained Hospitalizations, which potentially concerns all patients hospitalized in the public hospital, and then recall the lineaments in the history of our discipline and the consequences of what the psychiatrists have forgotten and the consequences the very fact of forgetting.