Juliet Favez-Boutonnier (1903 – 13 April 1994) was a French academic, psychologist and psychoanalyst.

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After writing successive theses on

ambivalence Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. Stated another way, ambivalence is the experience of having an attitude towards someone or something that contains both positively and neg ...

and

angst Angst is fear or anxiety (''anguish'' is its Romance languages, Latinate cognate, equivalent, and the words ''anxious'' and ''anxiety'' are of similar origin). The dictionary definition for angst is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insec ...

, Favez-Boutonnier became a member of the SFP in the tradition of

Pierre Janet Pierre Marie Félix Janet (; 30 May 1859 – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, physician, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James and ...

, working to have psychoanalysis accepted in academia as a form of psychology. Having backed Margaret Clark-Williams in her dispute with the medical profession over

lay analysis A lay analysis is a psychoanalysis performed by someone who is not a physician; that person was designated a lay analyst. In '' The Question of Lay Analysis'' (1927), Sigmund Freud defended the right of those trained in psychoanalysis to practi ...

, in 1953 she joined

Daniel Lagache Daniel Lagache (December 3, 1903 – December 3, 1972) was a French physician, psychoanalyst, and professor at the Sorbonne. He was born and died in Paris. Lagache became one of the leading figures in twentieth century French psychoanalysis. C ...

in splitting from the SFP in protest over what they saw as over-medicalised training procedures. In 1964 she would return with him to the shelter of the IPA in the newly formed

Association psychoanalytique de France Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary associatio ...

. In the wake of the

May 1968 events in France Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which ha ...

, her efforts to establish a clinical social sciences section within academia were finally crowned with success. F. Dosse, ''History of Structuralism'' (1997) p. 137

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Favez-Boutonnier, Juliette French women psychologists French psychoanalysts 1994 deaths 1903 births 20th-century French psychologists 20th-century French women

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