Return to Treatment After the Accidental Death of a Psychiatrist

Freud's silence on his own eventual death was followed by a modern scientific silence on the eventual death of the psychiatrist. Interruption of a therapeutic relationship established over many years and in which the practitioner was the confidant of the patient's most intimate secrets cannot occur without suffering. The risk of pathological mourning and traumatic grief must be prevented by the care system, which will contact patients to offer them continuous care. Our reflections will establish guidelines for medical staff and administrative authorities when a practitioner in a hospital or private practice dies suddenly.