title: [A psychiatrist working with homeless people: A commentary].
abstract: Testimony about the learning and working experience of twenty years of clinical       practice with mental illness and homeless people; the author describes the therapeutic       paradigm and clinical strategies the psychiatrist must learn and employ to encounter these       patients, engage them in a treatment and rehabilitation towards a personalised life project to       the recovery. The author then reviews some perspectives for the future care of this       population.
authors.affiliation: CHUM.
authors.forename: Marie-Carmen
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Plante
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D011570:Psychiatry