[Télé-accueil: advantages and inadequacies of the tool. Viewpoint of the neuropsychiatrist]. / Télé-accueil: suffisance et insuffisance de l'outil. Le point de vue du neuropsychiatre.

The Royal law of july 20, 1973, clarified the mode of function of Tele-Accueil centers. They are at the border of neuropsychiatry. It looks like the psychiatrist is little concerned by this psychological help by telephone. Non paid listeners trained according to the Royal by law collect crisis telephone calls and try at most to face them. The reason for calling is for more than one third in socio-psychiatric problems. It should be welcome in the future, as wished by the Belgian State, that the psychiatric society gets concerned in the form of paramedical activity.

[The role of the healer in neuropsychiatric care in the Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea]. / La place du guérisseur dans les soins neuropsychiatriques en République Populaire Révolutionnaire de Guinée.

These comments reflect some actuality in Guinea, country where healers are generally controlled for their activities in order to integrate them to the medical life of the country, at least for primary care. In neuropsychiatry, the healer is more mysterious and less precise in its activities. He uses for its treatment exogenous factors: suggestion, a privileged relationship with his patient, drug administration. The endogenous factors used are dream utilisation, mystical states, transes. The neuropsychiatric healer integrates very poorly in the medical society and he will certainly create a problem in the future, with the coming of modern psychiatry. He will have to be situated in face of this socio cultural evaluation in the approach to mental patients. Nothing is done in this field, neither at the level of WHO, nor at the level of the state of Guinea.