Sectorisation psychiatrique : évolution et perspectives

Authors make a brief history of the french sectorization system. They show how this mental health policy was continuously carried out since 1960, creating the conditions of a progressive deinstitutionalization. They compare the french sector model as it was conceived in 1960, with the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model described in the United States by Stein and Test. Authors also describe how the sector model was able to adapt itself to the changes in needs for psychiatric care in France, particularly in the fields of emergency and liaison psychiatry.