Notes on Contributors

Nicolas Evzonas, PhD, is a Greek Cypriot Paris-based therapist in private practice. He has a PhD in literature and a PhD in psychopathology and psychoanalysis. He is a candidate in the French Psychoanalytical Association (APF, IPA) and Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Paris. He has published numerous papers in French, English, Greek, and Portuguese on clinical and applied psychoanalysis as well as essays on films, theater, and literature. He is the author of a forthcoming French book on gender countertransference, and the co-editor of a recent issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on “Sexualities, Gender, Class, and Race: A Psychoanalytic View From France.”

Philippe Givre, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor and research director at the University of Paris; as teacher and researcher, he is attached to the Research in Psychopathology doctoral school (ED450) and to the Center for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society (CRPMS) laboratory of the University of Paris. He is a member of the Collège International de l'Adolescence and of the reading committee of the revue Adolescence. His scientific activities are primarily focused on the field of the treatment of adolescents. While publishing many articles on the theme of adolescence, he has co-directed three volumes of Tourment adolescent [Adolescent Torment], published by Presses Universitaires de France (PUF); these three volumes offer a survey of psychoanalytical research on the adolescent processes. The issue of eating disorders is another of his research interests, with a particular emphasis on the differences between masculine anorexia and feminine anorexia, his most recent research being devoted to the study of masculine anorexia. As shown by his most recent book Pulsions rock [Drives Rock], published by PUF in 2019, his analysis of rock and rap cultures has led him to formalize and highlight the virtues of performative sublimation.

Laurie Laufer, PhD, is a