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P Marchais

Publications and source records attributed to P Marchais.

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PubMed1978

[Operative model in psychiatry].

This model is intended for an objective and dynamic study of mental disorders. It is specified in its various aspects: definition, cultural and historical origins, formation modus, conditions of validity, clinical, methodological, and epistemological effects. Its study shows that psychiatry can change rationality level, while including and extending the data of the previous trends. A new psychiatry better adapted to the contemporary scientific orientation can be considered.

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PubMed1977

[System method in psychiatry].

The limits of the present methods in psychiatry incite the observer to seek for new methods of investigation. A new method, strictly of operation, can thus be determined from the elements brought in by contemporary epistemology. It's based upon a comparative and differential analysis of the pathologic phenomena gathered in homogeneous groups and sub-groups so as extract from them the permanent functional data (namely the invariants) which are used to constitute open models and systems to be checked by clinical experience. This method is defined here in its terminological and methodological characteristics; its first results and its advantages are pointed out.

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PubMed1977

[In favor of a scientific psychiatry. Attempted formalization and operative model].

In giving due consideration to the heterogeneous nature of psychiatry, and its several trends with their inability rightly to state the many varieties of mental disorders, we may well ask whether this department of knowledge may not now be directed into strictly scientific channels. In the present state of things, the conditions suitable for the research of a scientific modus operandi are now fulfilled. That it may be placed on a more scientific footing, psychiatry must not only be able to overcome the epistemological obstacles and take into account the latest elements brought in by contemporary epistemology; it must also give us modes and patterns brought forth from clinical experience and experimentation. Constant exchanges between scientifically critical and purely clinical data is leading us to a pattern or mode of increasingly generalised scope which is based on functional notions and which permits us to answer the question raised in the affirmative.

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