Alain Vanier

Alain Vanier
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Born	(1948-06-20) 20 June 1948 (age 76) Boulogne-Billancourt
Occupation	Pschoanalyst

Alain Vanier (born 20 June 1948, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and academic. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Paris Diderot.^[1]

After obtaining a degree in literature, he taught at a middle school for two years.

He began psychoanalysis in 1970 and trained at the Freudian School of Paris. During his psychology studies, he worked as an intern at the Experimental School of Bonneuil-sur-Marne for autistic, psychotic, or severely neurotic children. The school, founded in 1969 by Rose-Marie and Yves Guérin and Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysts Maud Mannoni and Robert Lefort, later became a day hospital in 1975, where Vanier worked as a part-time psychoanalyst.

He then pursued medical studies and completed his doctorate in 1986, becoming a hospital intern and later a psychiatrist.

He earned a doctorate in fundamental psychopathology and psychoanalysis, followed by a Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR). He was appointed as a lecturer in 1996, and then a professor of psychopathology and psychoanalysis at Paris Diderot University in 2001. There, he worked alongside Pierre Fedida to help Danièle Brun establish the Center for Research in Psychoanalysis and Medicine, which later became the Center for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society (CRPMS). He directed this center from 2005 to 2016. He also lectured at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in Paris. In 2018, he became president of Espace analytique.

He is married to psychoanalyst Catherine Mathelin-Vanier.^[2]

He is the author of over 250 articles and the following books:

• An Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1996, Nathan; reprinted in 2010 by Armand Colin)
• Lexicon of Psychoanalysis (1998, Armand Colin; reprinted in 2003)
• Lacan (1998, Les Belles Lettres; 2015: 5th revised and expanded edition), all of which have been translated into several languages.

• Psy, de l'autre côté du divan, France 2^[3][4]