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She is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. She is a full member of the Paris Society of Psychoanalysis (SPP) and also an IPA training analyst. She was the former clinical chief of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, a lecturer at the University of Caen and was the former director of the Child Psychopedagogical Guidance Center of the same university. In 2003, she received the Frances Tustin Prize. Since 1965 she has been practicing psychoanalysis with children diagnosed with autism. She has published numerous articles, book chapters and four books in English and French on psychosomatics, autism, dreams, and on the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors: Le corps et le sense (1968), a dialog with her husband, a neurologist; Les Contes et la Psychanalyse (2001); Traitement psychanalytique mère- enfant (2004) and Le Souffle de l’Existence (2016).
Settling into the Body-Psyche and Family History through Birth
Bianca LeChevalier
Psychosomatic birth places the individual outside the maternal fusion, in the Unity of Body and Psyche. Inhaled breath roots the newborn to apersonal time and space. The name and surname root him/her in a genealogy in time. The areas of the mouth, the breathing and the skin give birth to the roots of psychic life and phantasies.
