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Psychological support at Institut Curie: a better life with cancer
Paris : 01 44 32 40 33
Saint-Cloud : 01 42 11 17 95
The Psycho-Oncology Unit brings together psychologists and psychiatric doctors who work with people suffering from cancer monitored at Institut Curie, whether during treatment, upstream for people with a genetic risk, or downstream during the first months following the end of specific cancer treatments.
It is part of the interdisciplinary department of support care for oncology and onco-hematology patients (DISSPO).
Psychological support concerns adult patients and those close to them. On Institut Curie site in Paris, for adolescents/young adults and children, care may involve seeking help from a child psychiatrist, clinical psychologists, and psychomotor therapist.
Faced with the psychological repercussions of the disease and providing care for it, psychologists and psychiatrists offer a space for listening and support. These consultations can open a follow-up of a psychotherapeutic or medical nature, depending on the request and any psychological or psychiatric disorders that may surface. Access to these consultations can occur in the context of diagnosis and providing cancer treatments, but also at the very end of treatments.
Appropriate management modalities for each person and each clinical situation can thus be proposed:
- To patients: external consultations or interviews, by appointment, in a dedicated area, as well as at a hospital.
- To couples and families, as well as to relatives.
- To people who would like to be treated by an addiction doctor.
Collective care modalities such as relaxation groups or other psycho-corporal approaches can be proposed by the UPO on the Paris site or at the Patient Care Center (Maison des patients et des proches, MDPP) in Saint-Cloud.