title: [Psychiatry, the field of all risks].
abstract: Mental disorders lead patients along paths of irrationality. Insanity is perceived as excessiveness, often associated with violence. Risk in psychiatry is omnipresent and nursing practice is performed within a narrow safety zone. The media coverage of sensitive situations does not help. Ensuring the patient's recovery, respecting the fundamental principles of individual freedom while assuring the utmost safety of others is the constant challenge facing caregivers in psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Droits des patients, associations et cultes, hôpitaux universitaires Henri-Mondor, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94010 Créteil, France. Electronic address: christian.gilioli@aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gilioli
mesh_terms: D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000523:psychology; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017751:Safety Management; D014601:Utopias; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: folie; insanity; nursing staff; patient; personnel soignant; responsabilité; responsibility; risk; risque; violence