COMBAT PSYCHIATRY OR PSYCHIATRIST ON THE BATTLEFIELD

Military, psychiatrists, close to the troops, during the external oper ations in which the French army is involved since some years, are revi ving with an operational battlefield practice. What they owes to their predecessors is actually included in a discipline, a military institu tion, and a society which have evolved. Psychosocial psychiatric pract icing, in such an opportunity, finds a privileged source of reflection s and lessons. Some of them may be used beyond their initial specific frame.