Françoise Davoine

Françoise Davoine has worked for thirty years as a psychoanalyst in public psychiatric hospitals in France, and is currently in private practice in Paris.

She was a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she and Jean-Max Gaudillière conducted a weekly seminar on 'Madness and the Social Link'. She has also made numerous presentations at the Austen Riggs Center in Massachusetts (USA), as well as elsewhere in the US, in England, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Switzerland. 

Françoise Davoine is the author of many articles and books, including History Beyond Trauma (with Jean Max Gaudillière), Wittgenstein’s Folly, Mother Folly, and Shandean psychoanalysis (Routledge).

During the war in Ukraine she is supervising an ongoing seminar on war trauma and psychosis together with Gerard Fromm (Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center) Oleksandr Filts (Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University) and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (Freud Foundation U.S.)







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