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Henri Brunner Struck off the medical register in January 2025, Strasbourg psychiatrist Henri Brunner is accused of providing incriminating expert opinions for over 30 years, following aggressive and humiliating interviews. A victims’ group has formed to denounce his actions. The accused has appealed his strike. Company From daily life to major issues, discover the topics that shape local society, such as justice, education, health, and family. Your email address Your email address register France Télévisions uses your email address to send you the “Society” newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link at the bottom of this newsletter. Our privacy policy Emotion surfaces at all times when Marie-Charlotte Elsaesser lists the testimonies that have been pouring in since she created the collective of victims of Dr. Brunner in January 2025. She wants to read us that of a woman, victim of an accident with her child, hospitalized for two months and summoned by her insurance to see the psychiatrist. She is accused by the latter of being “a liar, who has achieved nothing in her life and who just wants to take advantage of the insurance companies .” The founder of the collective also brandishes that of a man, suffering from stiff person syndrome, whom Henri Brunner accuses of “faking it. You try to pass yourself off as disabled so that your insurance company will pay for your house. I see fake sick people like you every day, you should be ashamed of wanting to steal from society.” A year later, he lives in a wheelchair. In total, 130 testimonies reached this retired English teacher, herself assessed by the doctor in 2009, diagnosed as paranoid after a ten-minute interview and placed on compulsory leave. “There is nothing medical in the interviews that Brunner conducts. He refuses to examine the documents, even medical ones, provided by the patients. There is absolutely nothing ethical in his methods ,” denounces Marie-Charlotte Elsaesser. ” His opinion is made before the assessment, the patients are condemned in advance. He imposes pathologies, such as alcoholism, on the patients without any proof, preventing any compensation, or prohibiting visitation rights, in cases concerning child custody, during separations.” Up to 700 appraisals per year A feeling of contempt also felt by psychiatrist Georges Federmann. In 2022, along with four other colleagues, he filed a complaint against Henri Brunner with the Medical Council. “In his conclusions, he takes absolutely no account of the opinions or follow-up of the attending physician ,” he denounces. “Everything is swept aside in 10-15 minutes, including the work of other doctors, sometimes carried out for years. He places himself in the position of the expert in front of vulnerable people. With his aura as a former head of department, he was not denounced, and he is made the reference for psychiatric expertise. ” As proof, Henri Brunner has become, over the course of his career, one of those essential experts, regularly called upon by the courts, administrations, and insurance companies. He has conducted up to 700 expert appraisals per year and has a total of 6,800 reports written in the context of criminal proceedings between 1977 and 2024. A figure that puzzles Georges Federmann. “How are these doctors recruited? Why do the institutions that summon them continue to call on the same ones? I’m appalled by the number of expert assessments he’s conducted! It’s suspicious; it’s a sign that it was meant to satisfy the clients, the insurers first and foremost.” The collective of victims of Dr. Brunner has collected 130 testimonies. The collective of victims of Dr. Brunner has collected 130 testimonies. • © Guillaume Bertrand / France Télévisions The forensic expertise sector in crisis And it’s the entire system of forensic expertise that is being singled out. “Expertise is often neglected by professionals because it’s a difficult task. How can you assess trauma in such a short time? When I performed one, I left exhausted because I knew I could be wrong. Our reports are crucial moments for our patients; they can be decisive for them for years to come… So when I know that Brunner performs hundreds of them a year… We need to review the expertise, work collaboratively, especially with the treating physician.” And Guillaume Krempp, a journalist for Rue89 Strasbourg who brought this affair to the media, added: “Expertise is poorly paid. We are in a context of lack of resources, in the justice system, in medicine. So we create “serial experts,” who are called upon all the time, also because they provide a service to the institutions that commission them. Brunner serves their interests, his reports support their interests. And he enjoys this role of someone who does good for society, who regulates access to rights to compensation, to damages.” Two sanctions, then the removal Expertise that is deemed biased, but also humiliating and degrading by those who claim to be victims. “You leave his house feeling like you’ve been through a mixer,” insists Marie-Charlotte Elsaesser. The latter wonders how the practitioner was able to practice for so long without being worried. During his career, Henri Brunner had already received two sanctions, including a reprimand, issued by the disciplinary chamber of the order of doctors in 2018 and 2019, for “violations of professional obligations” , after several reports of an “aggressive and contemptuous attitude towards patients”. One of my patients was examined by Henri Brunner following an attempted murder. She returned home devastated; it took her more than six months to recover from the examination. Claire Lauffenburger Psychiatrist who denounced Dr. Brunner’s actions It took six more years, and the class action lawsuit, which the medical association ultimately joined—a rare thing—for the expulsion to be pronounced on January 10th. “Late,” says Claire Lauffenburger. This psychiatrist was one of the first people to have denounced her colleague’s actions more than 30 years ago. “One of my patients was examined by Henri Brunner following an attempted murder of which she was the victim. She came back devastated, it took more than six months for her to recover from the examination. Ethically, it’s impossible to accept, that’s why I went to the front.” She then denounced this behavior to the association, which said it could not act without a complaint. A suspensive appeal in progress “There has been a general lack of action. Many people are aware, but for convenience, they keep quiet. For us, too, it was difficult to go as far as filing a complaint.” Guy Birry, the new president of the Bas-Rhin Medical Association, admits that “it took time” to process the case and refutes any suspicion that Dr. Brunner was being protected. “There is no self-interest among doctors, we are not at all trying to protect doctors from patients, we are trying to be fair, to also see if what the patient says is true.” He also explains the interminable delay in responding by the desire to cross-check complaints and respect the process to prove that the code of ethics has been violated. “You have to examine each complaint, ask the doctor for explanations, then listen to the patient to try to propose a conciliation.” When contacted, the Colmar Court of Appeal—one of Dr. Brunner’s main representatives—and the Regional Health Agency, responsible for validating the list of approved physicians, declined to comment on the matter. Neither did Dr. Brunner’s lawyer. The latter appealed the decision to strike off.

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