“Our profession is being mistreated. We are not listened to”, estimates Gaëlle Guilleux, psychologist in Chartres and member of the national collective Le Manifestepsy.
This collective, which brings together more than 8,500 professionals, was created in February 2021, after the publication of a report by the Court of Auditors advocating the generalization of a system for reimbursement of sessions with liberal psychologists.
Accompanied by several colleagues from Eure-et-Loir and other departments of the Centre-Val de Loire Region, Gaëlle Guilleux has planned to participate, on Friday March 31, 2023, in a symposium organized by Le Manifestepsy, at the National Assembly , in Paris.
“Our goal is to alert politicians to the mental health situation in France,” explains Gaëlle Guilleux.
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“Many positions for psychologists and psychiatrists are vacant in institutions, especially in hospitals. As the waiting lists are getting longer for patients, the government wants to drag them towards liberal psychologists, through devices, like My psy course, which was designed without real consultation with the profession. »
Gaelle Guilleux (Psychologist in Chartres)
This government scheme, which came into force in April 2002 (see also our edition of April 8, 2022), allows the reimbursement of eight annual sessions with the psychologist, under certain conditions.
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Freedom
In particular, the patient must be referred by a general practitioner to be able to benefit from the care. He must also contact a partner psychologist of the system. To date, only four professionals have joined, in Eure-et-Loir. The psychologist explains:
“Everyone should be able to be free to go to a psychologist, without going through their doctor. The government wants us to become paramedics, whereas we are professionals in psychic care, which comes under the human and social sciences. Psychotherapy is not a medical act”.
Another government project, adopted on March 9 at first reading in the National Assembly, seems to worry this professional. The bill provides that midwives will be able to send their patients who have suffered a miscarriage directly to a psychologist approved by the Health Insurance. This orientation could be carried out within the framework of the Mon Parcours psy scheme. “Here again, access to the psychologist would not be free since it would be necessary to go through a midwife to benefit from the sessions”, deplores Gaëlle Guilleux.
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