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This regular of the courts of assizes, former doctor of the public hospital, denounces in a corrosive essay the mediocrity of criminal expertise and “the massacre” of French psychiatry.
By Nicholas Bastuck
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IThere is the court expert and the hospital psychiatrist. The first is famous, the second much less so and for once, we wanted to talk to the hospital doctor. We had indeed a few questions to ask him after reading his latest book, How we massacre French psychiatry (The Observatory), an essay as stimulating as it is disturbing in which the Dr Daniel Zagury says his “anger” and his “shame” in the face of “losing” care devices, “a hospital gone crazy”. We had highlighted in fluorescent yellow this terrible sentence (page 91): “To treat suffering men, we need men who are not. And we were left with this vertiginous questioning: “How to treat if the institution is itself sick…
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