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With the economic recession resulting from the confinement, it is the young people who will pay the heaviest price, whether in the form of unemployment or indebtedness,” philosopher André Comte-Sponville declared in April in an interview for the Swiss daily newspaper “Le Temps”. His words highlighted a problem already widely discussed in the foreign press: What professional future for young people in the post-Covid era? In Australia, journalist Caitlin Fitzsimmons spoke a few days earlier of a generational gap, with on the one hand the victims of covid, mostly elderly, and on the other the victims of confinement, these young people to whom would fall the heavy burden of reimbursing a ecological, economic and social debt contracted by previous generations. In this article, translated by “Courrier International”, the figures speak for themselves.  In France, the punch formulas flock to the media to describe this age group whose professional integration is jeopardized by the health cr...

Faced with the coronavirus, the whole world is shivering. A collective and sometimes irrational anxiety deciphered by the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Serge Hefez. Illuminating.Sales of "La Peste", by Albert Camus, which are exploding in bookstores,  "Contagion", Steven Soderbergh's film , released nine years ago, which is a hit in downloads... While cases of coronavirus are increasing in France, an irrational fear seizes the population. While it makes sense to worry and adopt a few essential preventive measures (washing your hands, sneezing into your elbow, etc.), doesn't our anxiety sometimes take on a disproportionate extent? What effect does Covid-19 have on the human psyche? Does our way of reacting say something about today's society? Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Serge Hefez, who has worked on the AIDS epidemic for a long time, answers us.      SHE. Many of us are very anxious, even if they are not part of the populations at risk, even if they ...

  While the health crisis is severely affecting the mental health of the French, Emmanuel Macron has announced his intention to organize "Assises of psychiatry and mental health" before the summer.  The opportunity to finally put the question of the cost of psychotherapy sessions on the table! We are in a state of health emergency. And while this state of exception could last until June 1 , the arsenal of measures taken to fight the Covid 19 pandemic still does not concern mental health. In early November, several psychiatrists and a psychoanalyst alerted the government to "the third psychiatric wave". Witness of the distress of the French, the psychologists do not say anything else. “In this crisis, it is not just about respiratory resuscitation, we need to be resuscitated morally and psychologically. We are in a state of psychological deathbecause of the duration of this pandemic and the lack of prospects”, observes Ariane Calvo, psychologist and author of the “Li...