Biography:
Dr. Hugues Scharbach, MD is a distinguished Neuropsychiatrist and Honorary National Expert in pharmacotherapy with extensive experience in academic medicine, clinical psychiatry, forensic expertise, and international research.
He began his academic career in neuroanatomy in Paris and later served as Invited Professor of Physiology at the University of Bujumbura, followed by an appointment at Paris VI Faculty of Medicine. Clinically, he served as Psychiatre des Hopitaux and Head of Adult Psychiatry at Nantes University Hospital (CHRU), where he also founded and directed the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service.
Dr. Scharbach has contributed to multiple Phase III and Phase IV clinical trials and advanced pharmacological research. A recognized authority in forensic psychiatry, he has conducted thousands of court-appointed psychiatric evaluations for major French courts and overseas territories.
He is the author of the three-volume reference work “Expertises psychiatriques et médico-psychologiques au penal” (Lyon University Press; ESKA Paris, 1990–2019), including a volume dedicated to transgressive children and adolescents. An international keynote speaker, he has published widely on borderline and dissocial personality spectra, forensic psychopathology, and transgressive behaviors in youth, including presentations at major psychiatric congresses such as Chicago-Skokie (2019).
Title : Arts therapy: From free expression in psychiatric asylums to currently therapeutic recognition
Title : Attempt to approach epistemologic and étiopathologic basis of borderline state disorders
Title : Repeat arsonists and fire's addiction
Title : Munchhausen syndrome by proxy by children and teenagers growing, reaching adulthood with disharmonic features of personality, even psychic disturbances/troubles or mental disorders