The facts allegedly took place during hypnosis sessions. In an investigation conducted by Cécile Olivier and Alice Augustin for the magazine Elle, several women claimed to have been victims of sexual violence and rape at the hands of psychoanalyst Gérard Miller. For the first time, Muriel Cousin – who is one of the alleged victims – delivered a chilling storyon facts which allegedly occurred when she was only 23 years old.
To carry out the session, the young woman explains to the magazine that she lay down, eyes closed, in a meeting room at the Freudian Field Institute in Paris. Squatting beside him, the therapist, nineteen years his senior, asked him: “Do you feel the heat?” While passing his hands above his body. When “suddenly, something in [son] brain [l’a] out of torpor”. “I felt something unusual was happening. He touched my breasts under my sweater. I also felt his hand pass over my penis over the pants“, would have remembered the ex-wife of Stéphane Guillon. Faced with the act she describes, the director would have taken a few moments to regain her senses and to escape. For the moment, no complaint has been filed by the journalist.
“He told us to close our eyes…”
Muriel Cousin would not be the only one to describe this modus operandi. In the columns of Elle, other women – including Anna Mouglalis – accuse Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s relative of having abused them during hypnosis sessions. Among them is a woman who was 19 years old at the time of the alleged events. It was in 2004. After meeting the analyst on the set of We tried everythingthe young woman would have been invited to have a drink at the author’s house after the show, with one of her friends. Once at his home, Gérard Miller suggested that they lie down to do “a game he plays with his patients”. “He told us to close our eyesto imagine ourselves in a desert with a horse, while telling ourselves that this horse represented our lover”, she relates, before describing touching similar to those revealed by Muriel Cousin. Panicked, her friend fled, while she, paralyzed, would have remained.
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