The neuronization of psychiatry

The structural crisis of psychiatry today questions the medical model as a whole. First item of expenditure of the Health System, the techniques of psychiatric care, aimed towards the patient subjectivity, may be on the way to be digitized? The US influence, vector of a return of the neuropsychiatry, pushes in this direction. Based on the findings observed over the history of french psychiatry, this paper will examine this trend, its fantasies and realities, to clarify the conditions of an appropriation of technologies that improves the individual and collective medico-psychiatric service.