Fighting Melancholia: Don Quixote's Teaching
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2016
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 292
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 37561
- ISBN 13 : 9781782203650
- ISBN 10 : 1782203656
About the Author(s)
Françoise Davoine obtained an Agregation in classics (French literature, Latin and Greek) in 1966, followed by a doctorate in sociology in 1981, before becoming a psychoanalyst. She worked for thirty years as a psychoanalyst in public psychiatric hospitals in France, and as an external consultant and is currently in private practice. 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. Dr Davoine is the author of many articles and books, including La Folie Wittgenstein, Mother Folly, and History Beyond Trauma (with Jean Max Gaudillière).