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"The confinement of spirits is also watching us"

2021-01-24T19:13:52.904Z


TRIBUNE - The health crisis and the measures decided by the public authorities provoke, in everyone, withdrawal into oneself and disinterest in the future, explains Patrice Huerre, hospital child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.


Patrice Huerre is Honorary President of the Virtual Institute.

Last published work: “Places of life: what they say about us”, co-written with François Robine (Odile Jacob, 2017).

Of course, the damage caused by Covid-19 is very important when it comes to human lives and in the economic field.

But on the psychological level, they are no less so because of the restrictions on freedom of movement and human-to-human exchanges.

The latter are largely unknown because they are more underground and delayed.

And therefore of less interest to the media.

And yet what do we observe?

A narrowing of everyday life, topics of conversation.

We only talk about Covid.

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Each one is subjected to a tightening of movements, displacements, social practices, friendly.

We are witnessing a compartmentalization of bodies with respect to each other.

Each in his hut, behind his mask.

In addition to the difficulty of grasping the expression of other people's emotions, there is the fact of having to consider the other

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Source: lefigaro

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