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Francoise Davoine
Over the past thirty years, psychoanalysts Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have worked at a public psychiatric hospital, as consultants, and in private practice. They are currently professors at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and both hold advanced degrees in classics (French, Latin, and Greek literature) and doctorates in sociology.

Jean-Max Gaudilliere
Over the past thirty years, psychoanalysts Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have worked at a public psychiatric hospital, as consultants, and in private practice. They are currently professors at theEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and both hold advanced degrees in classics (French, Latin, and Greek literature) and doctorates in sociology.

Susan Fairfield
Susan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California.Also by this translator: Biology of Freedom, Freud, The Whispering of Ghosts, Dreaming by the Book, Freud the Man, Shattered Dreams, Introduction to the Reading of Lacan, Why Do Women Love Men and Not Their Mothers?, Lacan, Lacanian Psychotherapy with Children, The Clinical Lacan, What Does a Woman Want?

Psychoanalysts Davoine and Gaudilliére (both Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) argue that the unspoken horrors of war, betrayal, dissociation, and disaster handed down the generations in the families of both patients and therapists are revived in the therapeutic relationship, but also provide the keys to the healing process. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR