Health: "Sector psychiatry, public or associative, is in fact disappearing"
In a forum for "Le Monde", sector psychiatrist Benjamin Weil reacts to the holding, on September 27 and 28, of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Conference which, according to him, gave pride of place to neuroscientific approaches, neglecting "the question of the psychological suffering of people", and those who take care of it on a daily basis. Tribune. Psychiatry is disappearing in favor of mental health. It is an observation shared by the greatest number, that they see in this evolution a solution or a problem. Mental health is organized into two coordinated poles: a political understanding of the psychic fact on the scale of public health, of the great number and a scientific understanding exclusively nourished by neurosciences. Obviously, we can find the disappearance of the issue of the suffering of our patients, which is the basis of our commitment, unbearable. Of course, we must say our exasperation at the disdain of the supervisory authorities for the work ...