"We advocate for the abolition of the practices of isolation and restraint, which are constantly increasing."

In this year 2025, when mental health has been declared a "major national cause" and while no commitment commensurate with the challenges has yet been made, the Association of Young Psychiatrists and Young Addiction Specialists recalls the urgency of building and deploying ambitious public mental health policies.

For ten years, the AJPJA has been promoting, alongside many players in the field of mental health, a profound transformation of the healthcare system around a common objective: to support the individual recovery processes of people living with a mental disorder, to enable them to return to a life that they consider satisfactory while respecting their full citizenship.

This is not only a matter of our disciplines, but also depends on our collective ability to create a truly inclusive society, respecting the differences of each individual.

The mental health of individuals, particularly those living with mental health disorders, is clearly determined by their socioeconomic conditions, starting in childhood. This is a scientific reality and a daily observation: exclusion, discrimination, violence in all its forms, precariousness, and ecological or geopolitical threats are all factors that promote the emergence or persistence of disorders.

They are, in turn, much more frequent for those already affected, in particular due to the endemic stigmatization of these disorders. Our disciplines are therefore intimately linked to the social, societal, and political contexts whose developments we cannot ignore. These findings are reiterated by the World Health Organization (WHO), which recently published its latest 2025 blueprint to guide the reform of mental health policies and systems in all countries.

Mental health must therefore be addressed from a public health perspective, and mental health policies must therefore be implemented at an interministerial level. These issues will be the central theme of the French Public Health Society congress , co-organized with the WHO Collaborating Center in Lille (WHOCC) next November.

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