Various associations lend their support to the medical and social aid measures put in place by the council. Opened in January 2007, the Antibes Psychoanalysis Therapy and Treatment Centre, with director Dr Franck Rollier, is for young people and their families. To find out more about this free psychoanalysis service, Infosville talked to the consultant.
Infosville: How does the Centre work?
Dr Franck Rollier : The Centre is open three half days a week to teenagers with psychological problems who come along with a parent, therapist or teacher.
Consultations are free and anonymity is assured for regular treatment and analysis for four months maximum. Treatment is through consultation and analysis and no medication is prescribed.
Ten psychoanalysts work on a volunteer basis, all of them qualified psychiatrists or psychologists. They have two aims which are to find a satisfactory solution to the patient’s problem in early consultations and to work on the individual personality of the teenager. Infosville : Who do you work with?
Dr Franck Rollier :The Centre has close links with schools and colleges in the town as well as with doctors in the town and the hospital as well as with the social services. It belongs to the Health Problem Network of the town. As well as giving consultations, the Centre stages teaching and preventive measure events in projects with Bertone College and Audiberti School.
Infosville :What are the results after a year and what are your plans?
Dr Franck Rollier :The Antibes Centre has seen 156 people (93 teenagers and 63 adults) and given 527 consultations. It is the second centre of this type after Paris.
The therapeutic results are the subject of clinical study symposiums such as “Adolescence, awakening and time for alarm” held in Antibes in 2007. In 2008 there is to be a symposium at the Antibes Centre open to the general public where psychoanalysts from Brussels, Rennes and Antibes will attend.
Our plans? To continue our treatment in the best conditions possible, and we also hope to find larger premises better adapted to respond to the needs of the general public.
15, avenue des frères Olivier, 06600 Antibes
Tel 06 98 26 35 99, cpctantibes@gmail.com
