The members of the territorial psychiatric community are the public hospital service establishments authorised in psychiatry and the armed forces hospitals which are signatories to the same territorial mental health contract and which volunteer to form it.
The other signatories of the territorial mental health contract, in particular representatives of patients and families, healthcare professionals and establishments, social and medico-social establishments and services, may be associated with the territorial psychiatric community for the implementation of the actions of the territorial mental health project in which they participate.
The territorial psychiatric community may cooperate with establishments and structures that do not belong geographically to the mental health territory but are identified by the territorial mental health project for their role as referral centres, in accordance with the procedures defined by the agreement establishing the psychiatric community.