title: [Support psychotherapy or support in psychotherapy : a necessary reflection on the work in sector psychiatry.].
abstract: This article deals with the notion of supportive psychotherapy. This overall approach is often discredited even if, in the mental health network, it is widely used. Therefore, it appears important to analyze this approach and to define the idea of support in psychotherapy; this article reviews secondly when it is opportune to offer such an approach, what are the techniques related to this approach and finally, what are the results we can hope for? This article wants to initiate a reflexion while integrating some readings on the matter and using a clinical experience evolved from a practice in sector psychiatry.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guertin