Françoise Davoine
Agrégée de lettres classiques, Doctor in Sociology, Françoise Davoine was a member of Alain Touraine's Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux at EHESS, where, with Jean-Max Gaudillière, she held a weekly seminar for forty years on " la folie et les ruptures du lien social " based on our practice as analysts at the psychiatric hospital from which her books were drawn: Histoire et Trauma, La Folie Wittgenstein, Mère Folle, Don Quichotte pour combattre la mélancolie, Leçons de la folie and La Naissance d'un sujet politique.