[Being a long-term patient: chronicity and institutional clinic approach].
Some patients, especially schizophrenics, are hospitalised for a long time in psychiatric units. Evolving in a subjective and discontinued space-time, these "chronic" patients destabilise the professionals who support them in their daily life and in their "projects". Community psychiatry settles chronicity inside health care function by ensuring these patients are offered continuity as well as the layout of a subjective pathway.
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D003158:Community Psychiatry; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011385:Projection; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment