Faculty

Nicole AKNIN

Executive Director LLC

Co-founder of SFU Paris, director Director of the European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Co-author of “Relational and Educational Approaches”, member of the Board of Directors of EAP (European Psychotherapy Association) and FF2P (French Federation of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis), delegate of the World Council For Psychotherapy at the United Nations.

Pr Viola SALLAY

Academic Director

Doctor in Behavioral Psychology, clinical health psychologist, and family psychotherapist, expert in the study of family relationships and the impact of private and professional environments on mental health. Associate Professor at the University of Szeged (Hungary), member of the Board of Directors of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), where Professor Sallay serves as Vice President of the Individual Members Chamber. Co-creator of the therapeutic method EMOTH (Emotional Map Of The Home), which has become a major intervention tool in family systemic therapy. Invited researcher under the Fulbright program at the University of Maryland in 2022.

Research and publications: ResearchGate

Pr Tamás MARTOS

Head of Research

Doctor in Health Psychology, clinical psychologist, and family therapist, Professor at the University of Szeged (Hungary). Recognized specialist in quality of life and well-being, Professor Martos co-developed, with Professor Sallay, the therapeutic method EMOTH (Emotional Map Of The Home), which has now been transformed into an intervention tool in family systemic therapy.

Research and publications: ResearchGate.

Anna COGNET, PhD

Associate Director – Academic researcher

Doctor in Clinical Psychology from the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Dr. Anna Cognet is a specialist in perinatality, with extensive experience in the hospital sector, particularly in neonatal resuscitation at Louis Mourier Hospital and in supporting high-risk pregnancies at Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital. She has also taught at the Catholic Institute of Paris, the School of Practical Psychologists, and the University of Paris-5 Descartes. She is a research associate at the University of Caen.

Research and publications : ResearchGate

LECTURERS

Paul-Laurent ASSOUN, PhD, Emeritus Professor 

Philosopher and psychoanalyst, he holds a doctorate in political science. He was a professor at the University of Paris-VII, where he directed the Department of Clinical Human Sciences from 1997 until the end of 2007.

Research and publications: ResearchGate

Marcela ASSOUN, PhD

Clinical psychologist, Doctor in psychopathology, psychotherapist, specializing in perinatality, mother-baby relationships, family issues, social and school contexts, associate member of the Research Center for Psychoanalysis and Medicine (CRPMS), associate member of the Doctoral School of Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris 7 Diderot (Sorbonne), associate member of the Research Unit at University Paris 7/CNRS “Clinical Practices of the Body and Society.”

Stéphanie LARCHANCHE, PhD

Doctor in medical anthropology and therapist. Specialized in the transcultural approach to disorders and the caregiver-patient relationship. Administrator and member of the Expert Committee of the ISM-Interpreting Observatory in Paris. Member of the editorial board for the journals Medical Anthropology and International Health Trends and Perspectives.

Research and publications :  ORCID

Margaux GOLDMINC-MERAND , PhD

Doctor in psychopathology & philosophy and graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), psychoanalyst and researcher at the Chaire de Philosophie à l’Hôpital, whose publications she also monitor. Author of an essay on anorexia nervosa, La maladie du faux soi (éditions Hermann, 2023), with numerous articles on eating disorders, depression and psychoanalytical theory and practice. Speaker at SciencesPo on the question of the body and anorexia nervosa in C. Hoffmann and J.M. Donegani’s seminar “psychoanalysis & political science: the clinic of the social”. Speaker in The Anthropology Image Lab, University of California, Davis (Professor Tarek ElHaik’s course) on Winnicott and the theme of reverie. Leader of the seminar “Les gestes de la révolte” at Hôpital Sainte-Anne with psychoanalyst and psychologist Benjamin Lévy, under the direction of Cynthia Fleury. Author of translations in the fields of art & psychoanalysis (forthcoming in the May Revue).

Publications (here)

Doctoral thesis  (here)

Website: https://margauxmerand.fr/

Noémie LEMOINE, PhD researcher

Graduate in clinical psychology from the École des Psychologues Praticiens de Paris, with a specialization in education and health. Clinical psychologist at AP-HP from 2017 to 2022, working on qualitative research using the Phenomenological Interpretative Analysis method. Lecturer at the École des Psychologues Praticiens de Paris on qualitative methods and director of final year dissertations for 4th and 5th year clinical psychology students. At the same time, she is in charge of psychometric tests for the AAAEP National Center for Psychometric Tests. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in biomedical sciences at the Université de Montréal, with a specialization in clinical ethics. Her research focuses on the quality of life of pediatric patients with auto-inflammatory diseases, exploring the use of guided drawing as a tool for understanding.

Marina DEVEAUX, PhD 

Clinical psychologist, teacher and doctor in clinical psychology and psychoanalytical psychopathology. She has over ten years’ experience, working both in the field of child protection and disability in institutions, as well as in private practice. Her main lines of research focus on the clinic of the “incasability” of trauma, and the use of art in therapy. Her academic career began in 2009 at the University of Rouen, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree three years later. She pursued her Master 1 at the University of Rennes II (2012-2013), followed by her Master 2 at the University of Paris Nanterre (2013-2014), and in 2016, she resumed her studies to begin a PhD, which she obtained in 2019.

Publications : (here)

Chirine FARES, PhD 

Doctor of Medicine (M.D. from Saint-Joseph University, in Lebanon), Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology (PhD from the University of Picardie Jules Verne, in France), author of scientific articles on the affective dimension at the bodily level, psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose research work has focused on the clinic of mania and melancholia, as well as psychotrauma and its effects on temporality.

Publications : (here)