“I felt desire to be looked at as Dayan looks at his patients”: when “in therapy” invites himself on

The series, of which the second season on Arte already records 20 million views, motivates viewers to consult in their turn, even change the gaze of some analyzed on their own shrink.

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“Is it in the real life of psychoanalysts as good as Doctor Dayan?” This is the question that Christine is asking itself (she prefers to silence her family name), communications manager in early retirement in Rambouillet (Yvelines). The sixty -something man devoured the second season of therapy, broadcast since April 7 on Arte, and could not help crying with each episode. The way the therapist looks at her patients upset her every time. Even before the end of the 35 e episode, she took a resolution: to put herself in search of a psychoanalyst, to speak of the after -lives left by her divorce, of her relationship to her mother, of These moments when she feels “anxious” and “on the edge”. Christine has already attended several shrinks a few years ago, but often found them too cold, detached. She dreams of a practitioner as invested as that of the series of Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache: “We see that after the sessions, he continues to think of them. I would so much like to find a shrink with so much human warmth, also emotionally involved in our work! “

Christine is not the only one to dream of making an appointment with Doctor Dayan, a stripping skull and a serious look, embodied on the screen by Frédéric Pierrot. In season 2 therapy exceeded 20 million views on Arte.TV in a few weeks. As early as February 2021, the first season, devoted to characters traumatized by the attacks of November 13, met his audience. The health context necessarily played: at the time, the rates of anxiety and depression reached unpublished levels, and mental health professionals were precisely trying to alert the risk of “third psychiatric wave”. The whole of France then began to fantasize this character of an ideal confidant, capable of listening for hours without ever judging, and of offering us a space out of the time when to face our fears.

Looking in therapy, Patrice Gree, 63, retired, says he felt a form of nostalgia for his own psychoanalysis, finished five years earlier. “It is paradoxical, because it does not correspond to a joyful period: my analysis lasted thirteen years, I crossed a very hard breakup. But by attending the sessions of Doctor Dayan, I felt the desire to To be looked at as he looks at his patients. This attention, this empathy, this way of holding our hands with our eyes … In life, we are never looked at like that “, ecstatic the old bookseller with pepper hair and Salt and half-moon glasses, met in a Parisian cafe. A few weeks ago, Patrice even decided to go back to see an analyst, for a session only, in order to discuss his relationship with his son. “For the moment, I do not feel the desire to go back to treatment, but when I got out of this session, I instantly felt lighter. It is an incredible experience, when you think. Elsewhere such freedom of speech, “he insists, finishing his croissant.

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