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

Other credits in programs