[Women and the mental health policy]

This article analyzes Québec mental health policy from a feminist point of view. The critique focuses on the decyphering of three tacit premises that the author describes as wanting. On the base of these premises, the author argues that the policy avoids differences in sex and in gender role and their impact on mental health/disorders, that it belongs to a "naturalist" trend that wants to benefit families through the social integration of psychiatrized patients, and that it offers a scuttled partnership with women's groups. The author concludes by pointing out the policy's limits and dangers for women and women's groups, and by raising the issue of the relationship feminist services maintain with the State.