ENGLISH C.V.
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Paris I-Sorbonne; M.A. in Philosophy, Social Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, University of Paris VIII- Saint-Denis and ENS-EHESS;Â Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, ENS-EHESS.
I am a Social Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the CNRS, Iris, Paris, France. My research interests focus on contemporary mental health issues in France within political anthropology.
In the ERC research project Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology directed by Didier Fassin, my current research concerns adolescent’s (especially working-class youth) mental health management.
I have recently completed (in french) The authority of psychoanalysts (Puf, 2010 April) and co-edited The social language of emotions. Studies on the relationship to body and health (Economica, 2008).
AREAS OF RESEARCH
- Areas of competency : political anthropology and historical epistemology
- Areas of interests : moral economies, mental health policies and professions, psychoanalyst’s authority in France, emotional deviance and personal problem’s management, psychiatry and justice (forensic expertise ; mental health care in prison ; adolescent’s psychopathology), concept formation in social sciences.
LAST ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS
- Article : « An exploration of the possibility of a sociology of mental health: An historical epistemological examination of the subfield in France », Journal of mental health, 2007, Vol.16, n°3: 319 - 331
- Reviews : Kirsner, Douglas, Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes, Jason Aronson, 2009, 368 p. [Metapsychology Online Reviews, 2010, Vol. 14 Issue.9]; Paula Saukko, The anorexic self. A personnal, political of diagnostic discourse, State University of New York, 2008, 134 p. [Metapsychology Online Reviews, 2009, Vol. 13 Issue.40]; Daniel Lee Kleinman, Science and Technology in Society. From Biotechnology to the Internet, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, 141 pages (”Key themes in sociology”). [International Sociology, 2007, 22 (5): 623-25]