[Study of a case of manic-depressive psychosis treated in the acute phase with drugs and family therapy].

This is a case report of a manic-depressive case type II in a melancholic phase (Bipolar affective disorder, depressed) benefiting from a joined drug treatment according to nosological criteria of biological psychiatry (DSM III, RDC) and family sessions on the basis of psychodynamic and systemic criteria according to the logic of family theories. This case illustrates strategies belonging to various frames of reference and their articulation around a particular case.