“Psychology is always the discipline that goes by the wayside” – Liberation

“Yes the MyPsy device pass, in three years, at the end of his experiment, I can tell you that I am going to work in Canadasays Jennifer, 25, smirking. And that, you can write in your article. “Me, I become a life coach, shortened Mélanie*, 42 years old. Do not talk to me about being a psychologist if it is to do eight sessions of 30 minutes maximum, on the address of a doctor who knows nothing about my job. Jennifer and Mélanie, long hair, sunglasses on their noses and light makeup, are independent psychologists. One in Nice, the other in Chartres. But both went to Paris this Friday to denounce the deterioration of their working conditions.

A year ago, to the day, psychologists took to the streets for the first time in ten years to hold the executive to account. This afternoon, some 150 psychologists, in liberal or in hospital, crisscross the mouth of the Invalides metro, a few steps from the National Assembly. Almost all are women. The first to speak, in front of a van of the South union, purple flags escaping from the engine, is a man. “Public services are dying. Psychologists don’t have to submit to logic…

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