[Results of an epidemiological survey conducted with psychiatrists, general practitioners, liberal nurses and social workers in a mental health sector].

An epidemiological survey was carried out, amongst psychiatrists, general practitioners, social workers and liberal nurses, with a double aim. To determine the number of psychiatric cases followed or identified; these were classified according to DSMIII criteria (simplified for use by those interviewers little used to psychiatric jargon), essentially: dementia, depression, schizophrenia, other psychosis, other cases (neurosis, substance abuse, alcoholism). Another aim was to determine how the psychiatric care facilities were perceived and used by the person's interviewed.

[The psychotic, laws and the Law].

We relate some clinical examples of patients who went to hospital as offenders (murders). They were not condemned because they were mentally ill; we tried to demonstrate that article 64 of the French law is inadequate in reference to modern psychological, phenomenological and psycho-analytical discoveries. We relate cases of patients who harshly punished themselves because they were not convicted by the Law.

[The image of women in a therapy group of alcoholics and neurotics].

We show a certain image of the woman as she is seen and "said" in a group of female and male neurotics and alcoolic patients. We relate the remarks that these patients are expressing and we completed our analysis with two questionnaires; the first one presents about 50 (fifty) concepts which usually qualifie the woman; the other one interrogates the social function of the woman. The image that the group gives us is either an image, or the image of "dangerous and feline animal".