Interview with Patrick Boulein, facilitator of the mutual support group Les neveux de Rameau, in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. In a Paris neighborhood, a mutual support group (Gem) brings...

The psychiatric care system has undergone significant changes over the past fifty years, both in France and throughout the industrialized world. The centralized structure of psychiatric...

The French Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization (CCOMS)¹ for Mental Health Research and Training in Lille brings together a network of stakeholders (hospitals, research...

Interview with Marie-France Casellas-Ménière, coordinator of the Artame Gallery mutual support group, Paris, 20th arrondissement. In a Paris neighborhood, a mutual support group (Gem)...

The new procedures for accessing medical information—which have become more accessible since the 2002 Public Health Act—are bringing about significant changes in the caregiver-patient...

Giving patients a real opportunity to take charge of their own lives and live as well as possible with their illness is one of the goals of empowerment in mental health. Over the past...

Nicolas Daumerie, a psychologist and project manager at the WHO Collaborating Center for Mental Health Research and Training, defines the concept of empowerment and presents the joint...

In Lausanne, Switzerland, a multidisciplinary team made up of healthcare professionals, patients, and their loved ones is visiting high schools to help destigmatize mental illness. This...

Over the past decade, local mental health councils have been established in cities across France. To date, more than 100 cities have established such councils, and about 20 are...

Isolated and faced with the distress of a loved one struggling with a mental illness, families and caregivers often find themselves in dire straits. The Prospect-famille program, led by...