Éric Laurent is a French

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...

and former president of the

World Association of Psychoanalysis The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the development of psychoanalysis across the world. It follows the teaching of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; ...

. Trained by

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...

in the nineteen-seventies, Éric Laurent was a member of the directorate of the

École freudienne de Paris The École freudienne de Paris (EFP; English: "Freudian School of Paris") was a French psychoanalytic professional body formed in 1964 by Jacques Lacan. It became 'a vital—if conflict-ridden—institution until its dissolution in 1980'. Early hi ...

at the time of the School's dissolution in 1980 and has been a member of the École de la Cause freudienne since its inception. He was editor-in-chief of ''La Cause freudienne'' from 1992 to 1994 and currently teaches within the framework of the Clinical Section of the Department of Psychoanalysis at University Paris-VIII. From 2006 to 2010, he was the third President of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, overseeing the organisation of its sixth international congress (Buenos Aires, 2008) and its seventh (Paris, 2010). He is the author of the 2006 "Guiding Principles for Any Psychoanalytic Act".Guiding Principles for Any Psychoanalytic Act
/ref> In 1998, he delivered the key-note lecture at the ''Clinical Limits of Gender'' Conference in London, organised by the European School of Psychoanalysis and in 2011, he was invited to give the Abram Kardiner Lecture at the

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. He lectures widely in Europe, Israel and Latin America and his articles are regularly published in English, French, Spanish and Italian. In 2008 he published ''Lost in Cognition'' (published in English in 2014 by Karnac books) on psychoanalysis and the cognitive sciences; and in 2012 ''La bataille de l’autisme : de la clinique à la politique'' (Navarin/Champ freudien, 2012) on the political and clinical stakes of autism.

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Selected bibliography of English-language texts
Living people 21st-century French psychologists French psychoanalysts Analysands of Jacques Lacan Year of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis {{psychologist-stub