About us:
Dr. Maud MANNONI
(Netherlands 1923- Paris 1998)
French State Doctor ès Letters and Human Sciences
Founding President of 'Espace
Analytique, International Center for Psychoanalytical Studies and Researches',
Paris
Founding President of the 'Experimental School and Day Hospital of Bonneuil-upon-Marne',
France (treating autistic pathologies)
Director of the collection 'Espace Analytique' at 'Denoël
Publishing House', Paris
Author of numerous articles and books ("La passion d´être et la folie de
savoir: Freud, les Anglo-saxons et Lacan", "Un lieu pour vivre", "La théorie
comme fiction", "Éducation impossible", "L'Enfant arriéré et sa mère" (1964),
"Le premier rendez-vous avec le psychanalyste" (1965), 'L'Enfant, sa « maladie
» et les autres' (1967), "Elles ne savent pas ce qu'elles disent" (an excellent
study on Virgina Wolf), etc.
Dr. Maud Mannoni was a leading Member of the Freudian School in times of its
founder Dr. Jacques Lacan. Dr Maud Mannoni was invited by Donald Winnicott and
Ronald David Laing to work with them in London when she was only in her earlies
twenties; they established a life long friendship.
Dr Maud Mannoni was an eminent member of the 'International Psychoanalytical Association'.
[In the photos: Dr. Maud Mannoni at her private consultation room in Paris;
below Dr
Donald Winnicott with a child and Ronald
David Laing]
"To whom this may interest:
I commend Miguel-Ángel Meizoso-González as a clinical Psychologist, a
Psychoanalyst and a teacher.
I have known Meizoso for several years now. He led a charitable project
to assist in France survivors of the South-American dictatorships, survivors
of torture requiring psychological rehabilitation.
The clinical work accomplished by Meizoso at the Center of Psychotherapy
Broussais (day and night hospitals plus ambulatory services) in Brittany has been in every point remarkable.
Thus he was promoted, a psychoanalyst (something yet very rare), to top
positions of responsibility in a district of public hospitals and entrusted
the clinical direction of an innovative Mental Health Center, where Meizoso
proved his great professional skills.
He has also deserved the recognition of the professional community for
his pedagogic gifts.
I am persuade that Meizoso will make valuable contributions where ever
he may work."
signed Maud Mannoni, in Paris, June 1992.
Post-Script:
Meizoso wants to state his gratitude for having the opportunity to learn
from Maud Mannoni (and from Octave Mannoni); in fact, since the age of 14, when
he started studying Psychoanalysis.
From 1981 Dr. Mannoni was his didactic
mentor and was also Meizoso´s clinical supervisor until her death in 1998.
All along those many creative years, which started when Dr Maud Mannoni was working in mental health
during War World II, and beyond her life, Dr. Maud Mannoni, shown an extraordinary
intelligence, universal education, a kind generosity and ethical commitment of a citizen of the
world. Dr Maud Mannoni was an inspiring teacher, a friend and a guide of all those who came
to her for clinical knowledge.
Watch and listen (in French) the interview to Julia Kristeva, on Maud Mannoni and her School a, by Caroline Deschamps.
'Vivre à Bonneuil'
A fragment from the documentary about the experimental school of Bonneuil-sur-Marne, in the suburbs of Paris.
film by Guy Seligmann; with Maud Mannoni, Roger Gentis, Robert Lefort
