[Psychiatric culture and identity].

Psychiatric culture is a polysemous concept, rarely used in our circles and little written about. It is distinct from classical medical culture and social practices. A number of ideas can be put forward to define the specificity of this shared concept, which goes beyond our professional identity and its own acts, which define a profession and the skills listed in the reference frameworks. The question is also whether psychiatric culture can be summed up in its relationship with the history of ideas, theoretical and clinical concepts, practices and the social context.