[Responsibility of the hospital psychiatrist in civil rights]

As every hospital practitioner, the psychiatrist of hospitals engages his liability at each act. But his responsibility is however edulcorated by the difficulties bound up with consent, confinement, possible dangerosity and suicide risk of mental patients, and also sector policy. He can be therefore, brought to account to his behaviors, before certain instances. This present work only treats upon civil and penal liability, insisting on their basis and their starting up.