See an emergency psychologist in Paris

In Paris or the Paris region or even elsewhere, seeing a psychoanalyst, whether a trained psychologist or psychiatrist, is it not always a matter of urgency?

How to stop suffering immediately?

We are used to hearing this emergency in connection with psychological distress or even with the vital risk linked to the act, but it is not impossible to understand it in the sense of a subjective emergency , or from a decided desire of the being to get out of his suffering: there is no time to lose to stop suffering and to take charge of his life!

Like an appointment with oneself that one cannot miss, does there not ultimately exist a subjective urgency in all appointments with the psychoanalyst, whether he is a psychologist or a psychiatrist by training?

Isn't it finally an emergency to get rid of the suffering that hampers one's existence?

Finally, we can change perspective slightly and ask ourselves if the lack of urgency in the request for psychotherapy does not reveal a certain form of alienation, in this case nonchalance or procrastination.

From this perspective, it is not impossible to maintain that a psychoanalyst, whether a psychologist or psychiatrist by training, works on a daily basis with urgency.

The clinic therefore requires the psychoanalyst to be able to demonstrate great availability and to be able to provide, in certain moments of crisis, consultations sometimes in the evening, on weekends or even during leave. In this respect, the use of the telephone is particularly valuable insofar as it makes it possible to avoid hospitalizations and passages to the act.

This flexibility that the clinic presupposes therefore proves to be incompatible with a certain bureaucratic and rigid tendency in practice. And contrary to popular belief, this trend is not only found in institutions, it also concerns liberal practices.

Recently, when I was on the SETU? telephone service , someone called urgently at 11 p.m. to talk about his suffering. Very quickly, she says she regularly consults a psychologist. When I then ask her why she does not call him directly, she tells me that it is late and that he does not take calls after a certain time, just like during weekends or during his holidays.

If this tendency to isolate chronological time can be adapted for a number of professions, it turns out to be inappropriate for the clinic.

Indeed, to the extent that these emergency moments can become particularly important in propelling psychoanalytic work forward, taking them into account therefore proves crucial for the progress of the treatment.

Thus, the clinician's commitment is called upon to take into consideration these specific moments and clinical working time cannot therefore be isolated in a categorical, bureaucratic way.

See a psychologist urgently with the RPH

Faced with this contradiction and in order to compensate for this difficulty of treating emergencies in institutions and in consulting rooms, the Network for Psychoanalysis at the Hospital (RPH-School of Psychoanalysis ) to create the SETU? (Emergency Telephone Listening Service) and the CPP (Psychoanalysis Public Consultation ).

The listening line thus makes it possible to receive emergencies by providing telephone service 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. It allows those who wish to be able to begin their psychotherapy as quickly as possible.

Because when the CMPs sometimes give appointments after several months of delay or when they suggest that the patient only have one or two sessions per month, or even every two months, the clinicians who are members of the CPP welcome this emergency by offering appointments quickly and regularly.

By making it possible to accommodate the emergency, both that of the first appointment and that which does not fail to awaken the psychotherapeutic work, the psychotherapists trained within the School (whether they are psychologists or psychiatrists by training) therefore work regularly with urgency. Beyond Paris or the Paris region where this device has proven itself for twenty years, it is not unthinkable that it be developed throughout the territory.

Thus, if you wish to know more about the treatment of emergencies by psychotherapy or if you wish to see an emergency psychotherapist in Paris or in the Paris region, do not hesitate to contact me directly.

See an emergency psychologist in Paris