About us:
Dr. Jean AYME
Psychiatrist, President of the Union
of Hospital Psychiatrists,
Medical Chief of the Center Henri-Rousselle at the Sainte
Anne Hospitalier Center of Paris (in the photos),
Dr Ayme invited Dr
Jacques Lacan to teach from his Service when the International Psychoanalytical
Association ex-communicated Lacan for promoting a return to Sigmund Freud;
among his most distinguished patients was the philosopher Louis
Althusser.
Dr Jean Ayme is the author Chronicles of Public Psychiatry [«Chroniques
de la Psychiatrie Publique»] and of History
of institutional Psychotherapy [«Essai sur l'histoire de la psychothérapie
institutionnelle»] and a leading personality of its practice.
"To whom this may interest:
Elsewhere I have acknowledged my excellent opinion about the professional
qualifications of Miguel-Ángel Meizoso-González as a clinical Psychologist,
opinion that I confirm. ...
Actually our relationship begun in 1981. We were studying the project
of Centre for psychological assistance to the refugees in France, specially
for those suffering from the tortures of the South American dictatorships.
From that moment we establish a professional relationship and I have followed
the clinical work done by Meizoso at the Centre Broussais in Brittany.
I hold in high esteem the ethical courage he has shown in facing beaurocratic
resistance, mechanism that are often a cause of mental illness which our
duty is to resolve.
I can add, base on factual evidence and documents, that his clinical work
was very much appreciated by the Medical Chief of his Psychiatric Sector
and by the French Health Authorities.
He has been appointed Head of a district ("Assistant du Secteur") and
entrusted the clinical direction of a Mental Health Centre composed by
four Services: a Day and a Night hospitals, a Post-Cure House and a Medical-Psychological
dispensary. Whereas he showed a solid education as well as great professional
skills in treating all types of psychopathologies and in producing the
necessary adaptation of the public institution and of the puri-disciplinary
mental health teams for therapeutic action.
Moreover, Dr. Meizoso has been a Psychologist followed by his own Sector´s
Medical Chief (a quite pioneering fact when you know that, contrary to
the Anglo-Saxon tradition, in France psychologists still remain - in public
health services - subordinated to the psychiatrists).
Concerning his university studies done overseas, since long time we have
exchanges with colleagues trained in Buenos Aires. Thus I can state that
they enjoy the best esteem in our professional community, because of the
seriousness of their theoretical and practical formation.
We should conclude that Meizoso should be welcome by British clinical
psychologists. I am persuade that, along with his love for the language
of Shakespeare, Meizoso will made a valuable contribution to your public
health services.
signed Dr. Jean Ayme, in Paris, June 1992"
