The four unions representing hospital psychiatric practitioners announce in a press release that they will launch “a mobilization and strike movement of all public psychiatrists from mid-September” in the face of “inconsistent and cookie-cutter responses” presented at the end of the interministerial meeting devoted to the assessment and prospects of the great national cause for mental health. Communiqué.
After the interministerial meeting of June 2 devoted to the assessment of the Great National Cause and the
Government guidelines for Mental Health, we expressed our dismay and our
anger at the inconsistent and cookie-cutter answers that were presented (see our article).
We were expecting an ambitious, structured project, a method, a timetable, a broad perspective, a
vision of the future for psychiatry.
Instead, we found communication, vague promises and cosmetic measures (cutting
queue for young people) or unachievable (zero restraint for… 2030!…) without additional resources or a plan
overall.
Following our joint press release, the deputy director of the firm contacted one of the signatories to
propose a meeting… But we met ministers and their cabinets, including this one, at
minus 5 or 6 for 4 years, we have submitted proposals which have remained unanswered. We have
even developed, at the request of Minister Braun and within the National Psychiatry Commission, a
complete file on the workload in hospital psychiatry which, despite its hot news,
seems to have vanished… and public psychiatry finds itself more and more bloodless!
No, psychiatry does not need communication or the caresses of political leaders.
We need concreteness and recognition of our profession: the care we provide to more
of two million of our fellow citizens who need it.
We need concrete, multi-year psychiatric measures to make up for the delays that are
accumulate from year to year.
We need substantial resources to be able to cope with the additional missions
regularly on our discipline (radicalized, cutting lines, zero restraints, etc.).
We need to increase our hospitalization and reception capacities at the CMPs.
We need to revalorize our resources.
We need recognition to maintain our ability to care with dignity and correctly
our fellow citizens who are increasingly calling on us.
We need our bodies and institutions to be respected: CME, representative unions,
National Psychiatry Commission.
Failing this, and in the face of this deafening silence, we are launching a mobilization and strike movement.
all public psychiatrists from mid-September.
Norbert SKURNIK – Stéphane BOURCET, Inter-union for the Defense of Public Psychiatry (IDEPP)
Gabrielle ALLIO – Michel TRIANTAFYLLOU, Union of Public Practice Psychiatrists (SPEP)
Marie-José CORTÈS – Stéphane HENRIETTE, Union of Hospital Psychiatrists (SPH)
Charles-Olivier PONS – Delphine GLACHANT, Union Syndicale de la Psychiatrie (USP)
Press release of June 15, 2026
