psychologists ulcerated by the device intended to manage the malaise caused by the Covid crisis

As soon as it is unveiled, as soon as it is decried: after the “Psych check” for students and the “psychiatric package” for children and adolescents, set up to tackle the psychiatric disorders born of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new system will allow, from the age of three, to be reimbursed for eight sessions with the psychologist. Interested psychologists can register from Thursday, February 17 on the platform “MyPsy“ put in place by the government, and the system will be operational in the spring. But even before it started, it encountered very strong opposition from professionals.

Indeed, to benefit from the eight free sessions, you have to go through a general practitioner, choose a professional from the list offered by the site and suffer from a “low to mild” intensity disorder. Which is not likely to concern many people, according to clinical psychologist Camille Mohoric-Faedi, co-founder of the Manifeste Psy collective. “If you are burnt out, you are a victim of domestic violence, if you have suffered an accident, you are traumatized, your case is considered too severe to enter the system“, she indicates.

“What are we going to tell the patient at the end of these sessions? That it’s over and that we have to come back the following year?”

Camille Mohoric-Faedi

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Moreover, for Patrick Ange Raoult, the secretary general of the National Union of Psychologists, the device suffers from a major problem: its prices. Indeed, the price of the first session was set at 40 euros, then 30 euros for the following ones. A shame, according to Patrick Ange Raoult: “In the liberal framework, it’s half who goes in charge! There’s very, very little left and it’s not viable…” The main organizations of psychologists have decided to boycott the device.