Daniel Widlöcher
Daniel Widlöcher (8 June 1929 – 14 December 2021) was a French psychiatrist and academic.[1] He served as president of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 2001.
Daniel Widlöcher | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 June 1929 Paris, France |
| Died | 14 December 2021 (aged 92) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Psychiatrist Professor |
Biography
Widlöcher was born into an Alsatian family in Paris.[2] He started his career as a childhood psychiatrist at the Hôpital Ambroise Paré, directed by Jenny Aubry.[3] He spent his military service in Algeria, serving an adult military hospital.[2] Upon his return to Metropolitan France, he worked in neurology and psychiatry at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He then earned his medical license and a doctorate in psychology.[2]
He became an assistant professor at Pitié-Saplêtre's university hospital. He served as consulting assistant from 1959 to 1980 and was subsequently a professor-practitioner from 1980 to 1996.[2] He was director of the psychopathology and pharmacology department at Inserm. He also held various positions at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.[2] He worked in the Ministry of Health from 1983 to 1984.[2]
Widlöcher became a psychoanalyst focused on childhood development.[4] He carried out analyses alongside Jacques Lacan from 1953 to 1960.[2] However, he later spoke out against Lacan's ideals, alleging that Lacan sought to be "the new Freud".[5] Alongside Donald Winicott and Wladimir Granoff, he assisted in the foundation of the Association psychanalytique de France.[6] He presided over the Association from 2001 to 2005. He was also President of the Association française de thérapie comportementale et cognitive from 1979 to 1980.[7] He then chaired the teaching committee of the Association psychanalyse et psychothérapies. He received a Sigourney Award in 1998.[8]
He died in Paris on 14 December 2021, at the age of 92.[9]
Publications
- L'interprétation des dessins d'enfants (1965)
- Freud et le problème du changement (1970)
- Les logiques de la dépression (1983)
- Métapsychologie du sens (1986)
- Les psychotropes,une manière de penser le psychisme? (1990)
- Traité de psychopathologie (1994)
- Les nouvelles cartes de la psychanalyse (1996)
- Sexualité infantile et attachement (2001)
- Le psychodrame chez l'enfant (2003)
- Psychanalyse et psychothérapie (2008)
- Comment on devient psychanalyste … et comment on le reste (2010)
- La dépression (1989)
- Actualité des modèles freudiens : langage, image, pensée (1995)
- La Psychanalyse en dialogue (2003)
- Les psychanalystes savent-ils débattre ? (2008)
- Conversations psychanalytiques (2017)
References
- Roudinesco, Élisabeth (15 December 2021). "Le psychiatre et psychanalyste Daniel Widlöcher est mort". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- Braconnier, Alain (2003). Daniel Widlöcher (in French). Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui.
- Widlöcher, Daniel (2011). "Winnicott et la psychanalyse". Le Carnet Psy (in French).
- "Daniel Widlöcher". France Culture (in French).
- Marmion, Jean-François (24 June 2011). "Daniel Widlöcher, 60 ans de psychanalyse". Sciences humaines (in French). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- "Association psychanalytique de France — Présentation". Association psychanalytique de France (in French).
- "Historique du Bureau de l'AFTCC". Association française de thérapie comportementale et cognitive (in French).
- "Daniel Widlocher, 1998". The Sigourney Award.
- "Hommage à Daniel Widlöcher, dernier grand psychiatre et psychanalyste d'une génération encore pionnière". Tribune Juive (in French). 19 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.