Débat

Scientific Committee

Willy Apollon, Ph.D., philosopher and psychoanalyst; founding president of GIFRIC; consulting analyst in charge of clinical training for the staff at the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Psychotic Adults, the “388”; director of the Psychoanalytic Clinic for Family; research director for the Center for Training, Research and Cooperation of GIFRIC and a member of the Clinical Council of GIFRIC.

Jacinthe Baribeau, Ph. D., neuropsychologist. Since 1978, Dr. Baribeau has been dedicated to research on the cognitive and emotional impairment of individuals suffering from mental problems. Since 1984, she has also been developing evaluation of treatment and psychotherapies for depression, anxiety, compulsions and mania, psychosis (schizophrenia) and neuropsychological impairment (cerebral lesions and head traumas). Dr. Baribeau has been a titular professor since 1994. She is presently a professor and director for the LANNH (Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie et de Neurophysiologie humaine) at Laval University. She is also a clinical psychologist and member of the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec.

Danielle Bergeron, M.D.,psychoanalyst and psychiatrist; director of the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Psychotic Adults, the “388”; in charge of the short-term analytic therapy program at Robert-Giffard hospital; associate professor at Laval University; coordinator of education and training for the Center for Trainging, Research and Cooperation of GIFRIC and head of the Clinical Council of GIFRIC.

Jean-Pierre Boisvert, general director of GIFRIC; member of the Clinical Council of GIFRIC; coordinator of the Psychology program, responsible of the Educational section, and professor of psychology at Limoilou College;

Lucie Cantin, M.Ps., psychoanalyst and psychologist; associate-director of the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Psychotic Adults, the “388”; clinical professor of the Psychology program at Laval University; vice-president of GIFRIC; coordinator of the internship program and the publishing division at the Center for Training, Research and Cooperation of GIFRIC and member of the Clinical Council of GIFRIC.

Raymond Lemieux, sociologist; retired professor of sociology (Sociology of Religions and History of Christianity) at Laval University and president of GIFRIC. In 2001, he was a recipient of the very prestigious André-Laurendeau prize, presented by ACFAS (Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences), for his influential work in the social sciences.

Kareen Ror Malone is Professor of psychology at University of West Georgia. She is co-editor of The Subject of Lacan : A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists and After Lacan : Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (papers by Willy Apollon, Lucie Cantin & Danielle Bergeron). Both books are published by State University of New York Press. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a current recipient of a Spencer Foundation Fellowship to study gender and science at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has trained with GIFRIC for many years, is an associate member of the Freudian School of Quebec and is a member of Après Coup in New York.

Yvan Simonis, anthropologist, titular professor (retired) in anthropology at Laval Unversity, director of the Department of Anthropology from 1976 to 1979 where he founded, in 1977, the Journal “Anthropologie et Sociétés”, and acted as chief-editor from 1977 to 1988. He obtained his doctorate in Paris in 1967 at the Institut d’Études sociales, which was published under the title: Claude Lévi-Strauss ou la “passion de l’inceste”, as edited by Aubier-Montaigne and Flammarion. He is a member of GIFRIC.