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Also Known As Jacques Marie Émile Lacan
Born April 13, 1901 • Paris • France
Died September 9, 1981 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Founder Freudian School of Paris
Subjects Of Study psychoanalysis
Pierre-Félix Guattari
French psychiatrist and philosopher
Carl Jung
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist
Harry Stack Sullivan
American psychiatrist
Hermann Rorschach
Swiss psychiatrist
Ludwig Binswanger
Swiss psychiatrist and writer
Luce Irigaray
French linguist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol
French psychiatrist
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Bertha Pappenheim
Bertha Pappenheim
Austrian-Jewish activist
Jean Tatlock
Jean Tatlock
American psychiatrist
Karen Horney
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst
Karl Deisseroth
American psychiatrist and bioengineer
Alfred Adler.
Alfred Adler
Austrian psychiatrist
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian psychologist
Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst
Otto Rank
Austrian psychologist