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(1929-06-08)8 June 1929
Paris, France
Died14 December 2021(2021-12-14) (aged 92)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Psychiatrist
Professor

Biography

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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 the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He served as consulting assistant from 1959 to 1980 and was subsequently a clinical professor 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 [fr], he assisted in the foundation of the Association psychanalytique de France [fr].[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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Roudinesco, Élisabeth (15 December 2021). "Le psychiatre et psychanalyste Daniel Widlöcher est mort". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Braconnier, Alain (2003). Daniel Widlöcher (in French). Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui.
  3. ^ Widlöcher, Daniel (2011). "Winnicott et la psychanalyse". Le Carnet Psy (in French).
  4. ^ "Daniel Widlöcher". France Culture (in French).
  5. ^ Marmion, Jean-François (24 June 2011). "Daniel Widlöcher, 60 ans de psychanalyse". Sciences humaines (in French). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Association psychanalytique de France — Présentation". Association psychanalytique de France (in French).
  7. ^ "Historique du Bureau de l'AFTCC". Association française de thérapie comportementale et cognitive (in French).
  8. ^ "Daniel Widlocher, 1998". The Sigourney Award. 3 January 2019.
  9. ^ "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.