Psychiatry and metamorphosis

This article aims to explore the problem of metamorphosis in psychiatry from different points of view. The first is metamorphosis as myth, at work in the myth of change, healing, or rebirth over the course of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatment. The second (this time objective) point of view, is the reality of metamorphosis in psychiatry, approached via the study of change processes on the one hand (evaluation and understanding of therapeutic processes), and via the development model on the other, in its biological, psychological, social, and intersubjective dimensions. Finally, we conclude by discussing the metamorphoses of psychiatry itself, under the influence of advances in child psychiatry, but also of emerging social demands and new forms of anti-psychiatry.