Aims

- to introduce the students to psychiatry: semeiology, bio-psycho-social understanding, psychiatric clinic and treatments, including the biological treatments. Introduction to neurobiology adapted for human sciences students. Applications to the various life stages in a prospect of linking the various biological, psychic and social approaches.

Main themes

- Historical and epistemological introduction to the bio-psycho-social link in psychiatry.
- Discussion of the syndromic and dimensional approach in psychiatric
- Psychiatric semeiology
- Neurobiological bases in psychiatry ( genetics, receptors and neurotransmission, chronobiology, neuroendocrine tests, human pharmacology)
- Nosography (infancy and other ages): description, scales, pathogeny (with a particular attention to the biological dimension), treatments (idem). Particular insistence on the organic mental disorders and the biological bases of the drug abuses.
- Special psychiatry: suicides, legal psychiatry, post-partum, emergencies and crises, therapies, indications and effects of the psychotropic drugs and of other biological treatments in psychiatry.

Content and teaching methods

Introduction
I. General clinic
- Psycho-organic disorders (acquired psycho-organic disorders and mental retardation)
- Psychopathological disorders (mood disorders, psychotic disorders, nevrotic and anxious disorders, personality disorders).
- Conducts disorders (drug abuses, eating disorders, sexual disorders)
- Psychosomatic disorders

II. Special questions : suicide and suicide attempts

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Lectures, clinical examples (videos), course outline

Programmes in which this activity is taught

Other credits in programs