PEPR PROPSY was present at the 17th French Psychiatry Congress.
The event was chaired by Pierre-Michel Llorca on the scientific committee, Emmanuel Haffen on the national committee, and Philippe Courtet on the international committee.
Feedback on these four days rich in conferences, discussions, and encounters.
DAY 1️⃣ A great start to the event, with presentations by:
- Pierre-Michel Llorca – Bipolar Passport: an innovative care pathway.
- Emilie Olié – pregnancy and mental health.
- Coraline Hingray – dissociative amnesia.
- Wissam El-Hage – Therapeutic developments in post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Baptiste Pignon – Cannabis and psychotic disorders from an epidemiological perspective.
- Psychiatry and neutrality: ethical issues and contemporary challenges, chaired by
Philippe Courtet with Pierre-Michel Llorca on the placebo effect.
DAY 2️⃣
- Pauline Favre on emotional regulation disorders.
- Innovation as a source of light in psychiatry, chaired by Wissam El-Hage, with Emmanuel Haffen on neuromodulation and depression and Bruno Aouizerate on immunomodulation.
- Antoine Lefrere on redefining the criteria for a neurodevelopmental sub-phenotype of bipolar disorder.
- Philippe Courtet on bipolar disorder and suicide.
- Coraline Hingray on borderline personality disorder.
- Psychiatry and genetics, chaired by Ariel Frajerman.
- Wissam El-Hage on the management of treatment-resistant depression.
- Ludovic Samalin on patient-centered management of schizophrenia.
📝 Jasmina Mallet and Yann Auxemery were present to sign copies of the comic book Le monde est psy ! and the book Psychiatrie et psychologie du futur.
DAY 3️⃣
- Optimizing electroconvulsive therapy, with Antoine Yrondi.
- Incorporating agency into the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, moderated by Wissam El-Hage.
- From precision oncology to precision psychiatry, with Pierre-Michel Llorca.
- Lipids: the future of psychiatry? With a focus on metabolic biomarkers of psychotic transition, with Ariel Frajerman.
- Artificial intelligence to address the diagnostic challenge of dissociative disorders, with Coraline Hingray.
- Remote monitoring in bipolar disorder and depression, with Antoine Yrondi.
- A debate on the relevance of monitoring plasma antidepressant levels in patients suffering from depression, with Florian Stephan.
DAY 4️⃣
- Pollution and mental health, chaired by Baptiste Pignon, who discussed the link between air pollution and psychiatric disorders.
- Burnout: a real illness or a societal phenomenon? A debate moderated by Pierre-Michel Llorca.
➡️ Find the detailed program here.
🏆 And congratulations to Antoine Lefrere, who won third prize in the CFP 2025 clinician publication competition!
For his publication “Refining Criteria for a Neurodevelopmental Subphenotype of Bipolar Disorders: A FondaMental Advanced Centers of Expertise for Bipolar Disorders Study”.
Available here.