Délivrance du titre de psychologue en France : entre nécessité et absence de formation à l’exercice des psychothérapies

[Professional commitment and work in psychiatry]

The practice of care in a psychiatric service, whether outpatient or inpatient, appears more than ever to be a personal commitment. How can we conceive it despite the difficulties of the profession, which make new professionals hesitate to join it? There is now open talk of a "crisis in psychiatry", of professionals leaving the profession. However, many observers and caregivers manage to give meaning to this demanding profession, at the crossroads between disciplines and institutions. The activity is constantly evolving, shaped as much by the advent of multiple theoretical frameworks as by societal movements. The number of people using this discipline, which is now also called "mental health" care, is constantly increasing, while at the same time all the players are struggling to recruit professionals. However, patients who have become users can testify to the quality of the caregivers.

[Psychological state of Covid-19 patients after resuscitation]

The epidemic of Covid-19 was characterized, from its beginning, by "emergency". A state of emergency enacted by the state authorities to fight, on one hand, against the pandemic as such and, on the other hand, to manage the influx of patients admitted in intensive care. In this unprecedented context, the suffering of the people goes beyond the emergency situation and persists in forms ranging from a pseudo-banality to the complexity of an insidious evolution.