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Having become a young clinical psychologist after an initial literary education, Catherine Chabert began her practice as a drama therapist, then as a psychotherapist of adolescents and young adults hospitalized in a psychiatric setting for severe disorders. Now a highly active training member of the French Psychoanalytical Association, she combines her work as an analyst with a long and brilliant academic career at Paris Descartes University (Paris V). As a senior lecturer and then a professor, she contributes to the development of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at the university, at the institutional level by creating and directing the laboratory for clinical psychology and psychopathology, and at the scientific level by her own research and the research she coordinates or directs; in particular, she is updating and developing the psychoanalytic interpretation of projective methods in an approach that is now gaining an international following. Her strong interest in the transference in clinical practice and the metapsychology closely linked with it, which she refuses to separate, form the heart of Chabert's psychoanalytic practice and thought; they have permeated the university teaching she has provided to future clinical psychologists and young researchers, many of whom have received and transmitted her passion for psychoanalysis, as they have long nurtured the training of many analysts in supervision with her at the APF's training institute.
Chabert's work is especially close to the style and thought of Pontalis – a major proponent of Winnicott's work in France – with his liking for the ‐‘intervening period’ and ‘intermediate realms’, but she is also influenced by other eminent figures of French psychoanalysis such as Daniel Widlöcher, André Green, Roger Dorey, and Didier Anzieu, about whom she has written a monograph. Building on Anzieu's works on psychic envelopes, she concentrates much of her research on narcissistic and depressive sufferings, a product