[The psychiatrist's "voices" and the metamorphosis from thinker to operator]

Over the last few decades there has been a radical change in the education and social role of the psychiatrist, who from "thinker" has transformed into "operator". A large number of scientific, medical, educational, cultural, health, organizational, political and legal factors have contributed to this change. In the professional reality these factors can be symbolized as internal "voices" of the psychiatrists, who automatically limit or inhibit their aptitude for autonomous thinking, lapsed to the advantage of the need to operate practically in a professional role lived with ever less awareness and cultural depth. The impoverishment of the psychiatrist's sense of scientific and cultural identity who is being asked less and less to "think", corresponds to a change in expectations on the part of society, which essentially asks him to "operate". From a scientific metaphor perspective, the "breakdown" of the mental attitude dominated by these factors could restore strength to psychiatrist's cultural depth and social role.