Villa Gillet - Rhône-Alpes - recherches contemporaines

Élisabeth Roudinesco, historian and psychoanalysist, is director of research at Paris VII University and vice-president of the International Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis Society. She is the author of an extremely important book on the history of psychoanalysis and she has published numerous reference books, such as Histoire de la psychanalyse en France (new edition due to be published by Hachette in October 2009 as part of the series ‘Pochothèque’). More recently, she has published a history of perversion:  La part obscure de nous-mêmes (Albin Michel, 2007). She has also just published a much-awaited book on the Jewish question and antisemitism with Albin Michel : Retour sur la question juive.