Mental health, a great cause of 2025? The TF1 guest on Tuesday, May 13, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron was interrogated about the disturbing degradation of the mental health of young people and about the response of successive governments since he came to power.
Your answer: an admission and a peak. “I admit with humility that I had not seen the phenomenon at this time,” said Emmanuel Macron, depliating the harmful effects of social networks.
Regarding the actions carried out by the Executive, the Head of State recalled the implementation of the “My Psych Support” system, which allows access to 12 psychological support sessions, reimbursed up to 50 euros per session.
A device that has not paid fruit, if we trust successive studies conducted from the confinement that shows a continuous worsening of the phenomenon. But this failure comes, according to the Head of State, of the refractory nature of liberal psychologists.
“It did not work as we wanted, because there is no culture of cooperation between psychiatrists and psychologists, in any case it is still defective. And because there was a liberal psychology, that we need, that did not return to him (the device, the editor’s note),” Emmanuel Macron approached.
For psychologists, it is a rewriting of history, as Couplé explains in BFMTV Florent Simon, general secretary of the National Union of Psychologists.
“These are heartbreaking, derogatory and next to the plate,” fulma.
At the first point, the absence of “culture of cooperation”, the head of state would be wrong. “We have the feeling that he has not yet understood that psychologists and psychiatrists have been working on great daily cooperation and this since the implementation of the sectorization, therefore, since the 1960s, psychologists and psychiatrists, these are two different and articulated merchants, who work together,” he insists on the practitioner.
“My psychologists, 5,800 psychologists, 90% boycott?
Another litigious point: the membership, or not, of these liberal professionals to the system. The trade unionist says that from 86 to 90% of professionals (32,000 in activity) do not participate in this system. Requested by BFMTV, it is said that health insurance is increasing, both in patients and professionals.
“As of May 12, 2025, health insurance had 5,854 partners who confirmed that the upward trend in the number of psychologists who wish to participate in my psychiatric support continues,” says the authorities, who appreciate the positive effects of an adaptation of this system, in particular when approved the package reimbursed by the state of 30 e 50 euros.
“From its launch, to date there are almost 587,000 beneficiaries. This increase in charge is also the fruit of the developments made in the system in June 2024 to facilitate access to psychological support sessions,” explains health insurance.
The fact is that the profession is still very closed to this proposal, inadequate for the needs of the patients, too rigid in the number of sessions, and do not remunerate it enough according to them.
“Psychologists, when we say that 8 out of 10 did not want to return (in this device), it is because many, in the city, in Liberal, win more than through these plans,” said Emmanuel Macron, highlighting the delicate balance of the amount of this package, which should not in his eyes overcome the paid to a pediatrician, for example.
“A way of not looking at their responsibilities”
These statements made by the President of the Republic question the National Union of Psychologists: Why this attack? “I don’t know what the Head of State wants to do, but it is a form, in my opinion, not to face their responsibilities regarding public services that have deteriorated as and when it cannot be compensated by a device rejected throughout the profession.”
Florent Simon so solemnly calls Emmanuel Macron and the Ministry of Health to initiate a dialogue, in particular with his organization, regretting that the president did not receive them, by Matignon or by the two ministers in charge of health.
“If you think it goes in your actions. Let him go to the end of his words, inviting us to discuss real measures around mental health. Because for the moment, this ‘year of mental health’, we have heard of that, but nothing else happened,” bothers.
Source: BFM TV
