They Think They Find Themselves: Radical Violence and Narcissistic-Identity Suffering

Past President of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Professor of Psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal. He has published seven books and over 150 papers. His university research is mainly around individual and group violence, terrorism and mass violence, always from a psychoanalytic perspective. He has been published on topics concerning murderers, genocides, terrorism, and child-soldiers. His personal psychoanalytic research is mainly about archaic conflicts and suffering, narcissistic identity suffering for which symbolisation, representation, subjective appropriation are problematic; in relation to the functions of the analyst and the use of the transference.