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The organisation of general psychiatric care in France and the development of the ‘Secteur’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Margaret Gwynne Lloyd
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Research Officer, Department of Law, Sir Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3DZ
Michel Bénézech
Affiliation:
Service Médico-Psychologique Régional des Prisons et Laboratoire de Médecine Légale de l'Université de Bordeaux, Maison d'Arrêt de Bordeaux-Gradignan, B.P. 109, 33170 Gradignan-Cedex, France
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In 1945 general psychiatric care in France was still mainly centred on large public and private institutions built, for the most part, in the 19th century and which had embodied, as their basic philosophy, the isolation and detention of the mentally ill.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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