[Sector psychiatry and institutional psychotherapy, asking questions to move forward].

Abstract

Psychiatric practice, as a discipline of relationship and confidence, sometimes confronts caregivers with the unthinkable, with nonsense. The heritage of sector psychiatry and institutional psychotherapy helps to provide contemporary clinical reference points, and to encourage the transmission of know-how. The critical reading and appropriation of concepts stemming from these movements can support the progress of caregivers and their patients. Transmission takes place every day on psychiatric wards, opening up the possibility of complex, tailor-made care, an ethic of encounter and plural narratives. Institutions, too, seem to be co-constructing their narrative identities.