La remise en question du pouvoir psychiatrique à Genève (1960–1980)

Abstract

The article deals with the development of the manner in which Geneva’s institutional psychiatric power is undermined during the 1970s. An attempt is thus made to situate the former disagreements into a broader perspective. thereby referring to the so-called «anti-psychiatry» of the 1960s. Following a presentation of the Bel-Air Clinic in regards to its context and reforms, the paper features an analysis of the criticisms and demands purported by alternative groups in matter of psychiatry. As such, the paper ranges from the denunciation of psychiatric repression in Canton Geneva, to the subsequent critical eruption of the reorganisation of the psychiatric structures, up to the legislative amendments of the 1980s.