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Victor Souffir, Serge Gauthier and Bernard Odier, psychoanalysts working in a psychiatric capacity at the Association de Santé Mentale in the 13th2 arrondissement in Paris where psychoanalysis remains a reference-point, pioneered an original clinical research project approximately two decades ago. With psychiatrists lacking a common theoretical foundation for psychopathology and in the hope of introducing greater rationality into therapeutic strategies with psychotic patients, the authors developed a new method of clinical description, COP 13, starting with theoretical and practical contributions from their three fields of expertise - classical psychiatry, community psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Their work, published in 2011 by Dunod in a book entitled Évaluer les psychoses avec la COP 13, Une clinique organisée des psychoses, puts forward a comprehensible reorganization of ‘current clinical practice’, based on revised theoretical foundations and deeply rooted in clinical practice. Their results present psychopathological structures that bring together and