Viviane Chetrit-Vatine, former President of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and faculty member of the Israel Institute of Psychoanalysis, is a training analyst for adults and children. Her professional activity includes: a private practice in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, teaching and training at the Israel Institute of Psychoanalysis and on other Israeli psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic post-graduate programmes, and research activity in the laboratory run by Francois Villa at Paris VII Diderot University (CPRMS). She is a member of the international reading committee of the Revue Française de Psychanalyse, of the international scientific committee of Monographies de Psychanalyse and of the reading committee of Maarag. She publishes articles in Israeli journals (Sihot, Maarag), in French journals (RFP, Le coq heron), as well as in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
According to Jacques André, “the patient’s encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is... (more)