Thibaud Le Meneec 1:56 p.m., October 10, 2021

On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, psychiatrist Serge Hefez takes stock of the situation in France today on Europe 1, a year and a half after the start of the Covid-19 crisis.

For the specialist, the measures announced by Emmanuel Macron at the end of September will prove to be insufficient given the scale of the challenges.

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Worn out by endless months of confinement and curfews linked to Covid-19, are the French doing "better" at the start of autumn 2021,

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less difficult in terms of deprivation of liberty than the previous one?

This is the whole question which agitates at the moment the specialists in mental health, of which it is the world day, Sunday.

On this occasion, the psychiatrist Serge Hefez gives Europe 1 his perspective on the situation and the tools to repair the psychological weaknesses of the population.

"Think about the training of psychologists"

Emmanuel Macron may have announced a big plan for mental health, at the end of September, it will not be enough, warns the specialist. "There are 1000 positions of psychologists that will be created, but it would take 10,000 at the present time," he measures. In the same way, according to him, the reimbursement of psychologists promised by the Head of State does not go far enough. “Reimbursing psychologists is very good, but over ten sessions, it does not make much sense. These are long supports that are involved. We must also think about the training of psychologists, who do not 'is not sufficiently fleshed out to support this mental health. "

And Serge Hefez to demand on Europe 1 "a truly comprehensive law on mental health which is not based only on the Ministry of Health, but which is inter-ministerial, that is to say a real high-level consultation "capable of meeting the needs measured by specialists.