PRESENTATION
I am practincing in Cannes since 1984, nearly 40 years of medical experience.
For the first 10 years, I was a general practitioner.
I came to understand that in medicine, it is more important to treat the cause than the symptom, and to avoid confusion between cause and effect ; this logically led me towards psychiatry and psychanalysis.
In recognition of my work, I officially earned the title of psychiatrist in 1993.
I chose not to confine myself to a specific psychoanalytical school of thought… Freudian, Lacanian or other. In fact, each school of thought has contributed enormously to the field and I take from each school what I feel most useful from a clinical standpoint for a psyhoanalitical psychotherapy.
In my opinion, the quality of care depends on the ability to really listen, in an active interaction and dialogue. My practice of psychoanalytical therapy is not based on silence, but rather on a well-meaning encounter. I include didactic analysis, that is to say a form of teachhing of the laws that gouverne emotions, indepedent of the intellectual, somatic and material functioning.
I also wiew transenerartional transmission (grandparents, parents, children) as being very important, in terms of causes and consequences of emotional functioning.