François Richard

François Richard, is a full member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP) and initially trained in the social sciences. Psychoanalysis appeared to him to be able to respond to the challenges of the contemporary world and in 1978, after studying psychology and analysis, he began a liberal practice parallel to a clinic in several medical-psychological institutions for children and adolescents for more than thirty years. This led to books such as "Les troubles psychiques à l´adolescence" and "Le processus de subjectivation à l´adolescence". Adolescence appears as a paradigm for thinking about subjectivation disorders and adult borderline states, theorised in "Psychothérapie des dépressions narcissiques", "La Subjectivation", "Le travail du psychanalyste en psychothérapie", "La Rencontre psychanalytique".

Professor of psychopathology at the Université Paris Cité, he has directed numerous theses and organised many conferences. In "L´actuel malaise dans la culture" and more recently in ""Le Surmoi perverti. Bisexualité psychique et états limites" (2021) he proposes a conception of the deformed Oedipus that allows us to rethink borderline states in the context of current forms of malaise in civilisation.

He has participated in four APA conferences, including one on the work of André Green (his paper is in the Revue Argentine de Psychanalyse) and published a chapter in the recent book “Pulsión, Muerte y Sexualidades. Perspectivas actuales� edited by Fernando M. Gomez.