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Abstract: The policy of humanization of care given to people suffering from chronic mental disorders consists in maintaining them in their natural environment. The massive development of extrahospital structures and of alternatives to hospitalization allows a reintegration of stabilized psychotic patients. The insufficiency of psychiatric structures due to reduction of beds and that of the duration of hospitalization – for various reasons, whether ideological or economic – condemns the patients suffering from serious mental disorders to wandering and imprisonment. Any absence of social and therapeutic response to the isolation and pathology of de-institutionalized patients poses serious public health problems. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In the last few years, different studies have found high rates of schizophrenia among migrants to some European countries. This work proposes a review of the literature of the last 10 years concerning the incidence, the prevalence and associated risk factors of schizophrenic syndromes among migrants through a research in the Medline database. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The Lord of the Rings is the most famous work of Tolkien, the writer, linguist, medievalist and professor of English literature. Some consider it as a masterpiece, others as a childish tale, but the novel leaves nobody indifferent. Thirty years after its publication, it still fascinates. The aim of the following work is to approach the autobiographical dimension of the novel, with a psychodynamic perspective and through the oedipal paradigm. Therefore, the released elements are studied under a double analytical and structural prospect, then emphasised relatively to the biographical data of the author and to his cultural environment. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The recent evolution of the public health system has led to a drastic decrease in the capacity of public psychiatric hospitals to receive patients. As patients can benefit from new drugs with better efficacy and higher safety, it has become possible for those who once were banished from the general population because of their symptoms, to live and to be accepted again in the city. But at the same time, the stress of social rehabilitation, precariousness of shelter and drug abuse behaviour contribute to constant relapses. Remission periods become shorter. Consequently the psychiatrists attend to a new phenomenon: A great number of patients are hospitalised for short periods, and return back to the hospital a few days after their exit. This phenomenon is called the revolving door syndrome. Our intervention aims to describe it and all its components and to estimate its reality in 2006. This paper is the result of a team work and the same crue as been working ten years ago on this subject, concerning the same topics. Inpatients with mental disease have specific and complex needs concerning their health but also concerning their material conditions for survival. The paradox is that solutions do exist and follow up is systematically proposed. However hospitalization seems to be the only solution that some patients can accept. Thus, the main question seems to be relative to the methods of follow-up. The patients do not always find the social and occupational support that the hospital provides. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]