The French state has decided to reimburse psychotherapy sessions for psychologists alone. Psychotherapists who are not officially recognized by the state, who do not belong to a corporation, are excluded from this policy. They will therefore find themselves in competition with people whose fees are virtually zero euros.
For this reason, I will try to offer my services abroad.
I am currently renting a phone number in Switzerland and another one in Canada; the sessions are currently free in order to set up the system and solve the technical problems.
I have received a call from Canada; however, the communication is sometimes bad. No calls from Switzerland.
In French-speaking Europe, Belgium and Switzerland reimburse psychotherapy sessions. Maybe I should rent a number in Luxembourg, but this country has only 600,000 inhabitants…
Since the beginning of the 20th century, what has happened in France and other developped countries is the resurgence of corporatism. Professional associations collude with the state to have professional monopolies recognized, by means of diplomas, competitions and schools that are managed by these same professionals. Society is then divided into two castes: the graduates, who receive praise and privileges from the educated society, and the non-graduates, who are only good for the most thankless and least paid tasks.
Some would say that this is the best society in the world, since it ensures professional training and compliance with state regulations. It is therefore appropriate for every citizen to fit into the corporatist structure, and to receive the privileges to which he is entitled according to his rank in his own corporation. The system is also considered irremovable, since even those who are inserted in the lowest levels of the corporate hierarchy still enjoy their own privileges, and to abandon corporatism would mean abandoning even these lesser privileges. One wonders how the French Revolution was able to abolish all privileges, to abolish all corporations in a society that was then entirely corporative and nobiliary.
It is because the system of privileges, of monopolies, of “titles” — and the appellation “psychotherapist” became a “title” as if it were a quarter of nobility — automatically leads to social paralysis and economic stagnation. When a professional group obtains a monopoly on its activity, it loses all interest in technical and scientific progress, and is content to defend its monopoly, to make it more exclusive and absolute. The more extensive, centralized and exclusive a monopoly is, the more inefficient it is, because the inefficiency protected by a monopoly increases costs, and this increase in costs in turn justifies the increase in fees and prices which cannot be challenged by competition. This economic power allows corporations to tighten their ties with the state, to increase centralism, exclusivity and regulation, which further strengthen the monopoly. Corporations thus have an objective interest in inefficiency, which leads society to stagnation.
For example, in France, in 2019, the Éducation Nationale, arguably the most powerful corporation in the country, has managed the feat of raising school fees to €11,300 per year per student in general high schools, and to €12,740 in vocational high schools, which means that high school costs society even more than a generalized preceptorship system, in which each family would benefit from a private tutor for every 3 or 4 children at home (one tutor for every two or three families, for example). This inefficiency of the National Education system, for such a mediocre result, seems like a miracle. In reality, it is the result of an outdated oral culture that has never been questioned since the arrival of books, tapes and computers. It has been established that even when the National Education uses a new technological means, it must use it in the most inefficient way possible, so as not to question the plethoric and inefficient workforce in this institution.
And the same is true of all institutions or corporations: the more inefficient it is, the more interesting it is economically. It is only necessary to provide the minimum service to society so that it does not stop functioning completely. But above all, never make it progress, never question the monopolies and institutions, and maintain the close link with the State to guarantee privileges.
PS: you currently need a special authorization to pack luggage at airports. Everything is organized to guarantee the monopoly, prevent competition and make travelers pay leonine prices. And civilized society defends this disciplinary and medieval system in the name of chauvinism and racism: it is no coincidence that the state-subsidized journalist calls these proletarians “clandestine workers” and reports that they operate on flights “to Ethiopia”. It will be necessary one day to break this system, and all those who support it. Aéroport Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle : La concurrence déloyale et agressive des « emballeurs clandestins »