Toxic Parents, Addictions, and Institutional Psychotherapy

Greek literature. He was awarded First Prize in the National Greek Embassy Essay Writing Competition (1996), and was shortlisted for the Aguirre-Basualdo/Labrouquère Prize for the Humanities of the Chancellery of Paris Universities (2012). He is an analytically oriented therapist with an institutional and private practice in Paris. He is also a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Paris. His scholarly work includes some 50 articles in the fields of literature, cinema, psychopathology, and psychoanalysis, published in French, English, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese. His main interests focus on gender and sexual diversity at the intersection of metapsychology, cultural and feminist studies, and gender theory. Most recently, he was a guest co-editor of a special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on ‘Sexualities, Gender, Class and Race: A Psychoanalytic View from France’ (in press). He is currently preparing the edition of a double special issue of the Psychoanalytic Review on ‘Trans Identities and Counter-transference’.