[Care programmes: the ambiguity of normality, exception and forms of control]. / Programmes de soins : ambiguïté de la normalité, exception et formes de contrôle.

The care programmes are medical-legal and therapeutic systems that showcase different spaces, the law, the patient's clinic, their freedom and their rights. In this context, the patient preserves their freedom to come and go. In applying the care programme, the doctor must acquire their approval, not to say consent. Outside hospitalisation, the care programmes bring patients and teams together within the city. The matter of social and community psychiatry, a vector of catchment-area psychiatry, then makes full sense.

[Health and justice coordination in prisons]. / Articulation santé et justice en milieu carcéral.

The question of health-justice coordination has been present since the law of 18th January 1994. Since then, professional relations between prison staff and health carers have been regularly questioned in terms of their aims. The texts structuring this interinstitutional health-justice coordination constitutes a framework which the various professionals must appropriate and implement by drawing on specific knowledge and skills. It is an invitation to work together around the same population, on their respective and different missions. The implementation of a structured therapeutic group with sex offenders constitutes a positive experience.

[The Quimperlé mood clinic, boosting the health and quality of life of bipolar patients]. / Favoriser la santé et la qualité de vie des patients bipolaires, la clinique de l'humeur de Quimperlé.

The Quimperlé mood clinic constitutes a new "gateway" in terms of care based on a spirit of collaboration. Several workshops, all related to each other, are offered. Neuropsychological assessment contribute to the patient care. Multi-disciplinary work is essential to enable the unit to operate.

[Bipolar patients, structured psychotherapeutic treatment and approaches]. / Patients bipolaires, prise en charge et approches psychothérapiques structurées.

The current development of structured psychotherapy has brought gradual improvements to the treatment provided to bipolar patients. This psychotherapy may be either carried out individually or in a group. In this context, psychotherapeutic meditation seems beneficial.