18 November 2023

17:35 – 19:10

Amphitheatre Painleve

Monique Horwitz-Guérin

Monique Horwitz-Guérin is a general practitioner. She practised for over 40 years in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Passionate about the transmission of medical practice, she has been involved in the training of future general practitioners as a teacher at the René Descartes faculty in Paris since the 1990s. She has acted as a training supervisor and tutor for interns in general medicine. For some thirty years, she has published medical articles in the specialist and general press. Her latest work, published by Éditions Gallimard (L’Infini collection) in spring 2023, is entitled Dans la tête du médecin.

Debate: 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