18 November 2023

17:35 – 19:10

Amphitheatre Painlevé

Sylvie Zucca

Sylvie Quesemand Zucca, a psychoanalytical psychiatrist, works in private practice with adolescents and young adults, and on a weekly basis in a consultation with migrants and new arrivals on French soil. Sylvie worked for 10 years with Doctor Xavier Emmanuelli on issues of precariousness and psychiatry, as part of the first “psychiatrie précarité” mobile unit. Sylvie Quesemand Zucca is currently investigating the links between digital image flows and symptoms in adolescence. In the adult world, she has a more general interest in the psychopathology of contemporary events.

Is it a misnomer to talk about vital energy?

All beings have vital rhythms induced by those of planet Earth. Do they change over time? Does high-dose digitized life play a role in human energy regulation or disinhibition? Many psychiatric pathologies express a surplus of energy, in contrast to severe depression, where every step costs, as if vital energy were no longer present. Increasingly, we take into account the patient as a whole. In the case of cancer, this certainly includes its progression, but also how the patient feels, his energy and his mind. Could it be that what patients have always called the “good doctor” is the one with a particular therapeutic impulse? Because if therapy counts, the way it is approached also plays a role.