THE COLLECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEBRIEFING

The technique of the collective psychological debriefing has proved it s preventive and curative effect, as far as patients having gone throu gh a <<serious event>> are concerned. It is described here in its vari ous aspects so as to be put into practice by physicians and in particu lar in the army by unit physicians. Recent experiments in a civil envi ronment (bomb attack in Paris) and in a military environment (Ex-Yugos lavia) have proved that this technique should became more systematic.