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Clinical psychologist, professor emeritus at the Center for Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology (CRPPE EA653), Lumière Lyon 2 University; psychoanalyst and member of the Fourth Group, member of Transition (European Association for Group and Institutional Analysis).
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The Analysis of Practices in Institutions: Support for the Professional Position in a Context of Management Influence
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2011/1 No 11)
The Gift of Presence. Temporality Between Dispossession and Appropriation
In Connexions (2025/2 n° 123)
Active-Passive, Feminine-Phallic: The Work of Polarities within Teams
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2012/2 No 14)
Intervening in Institutions: Preserving Groupality and Restoring the Intermediate Area
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2017/1 No 68)
The psychologist, the institution, and its changes, and Kulturarbeit
In Empan (2024/4 No 136)
Construction and implementing a “meta” position. “Training on the basis of practice” and its interweaving with the dynamic of institutions
- By Georges Gaillard
- and Jean-Marc Talpin
In Connexions (2020/1 No 113)
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Articles
Psychoanalysts in Ukraine in wartime
Editorial
In Le Coq-héron (2026/1 n° 264)
Epigraph in memory of René Kaïs (1936–2026)
- By Mireille Fognini,
- Georges Gaillard,
- Pierrette Laurent
- et al.
In Le Coq-héron (2026/1 n° 264)
“De-densifying” temporality in wartime
Psychic work and intervention in Ukraine
In Le Coq-héron (2026/1 n° 264)
Technology, between the devouring of the world and the emergence of a shared humanity
In Le Coq-héron (2025/3 n° 262)
The Gift of Presence. Temporality Between Dispossession and Appropriation
In Connexions (2025/2 n° 123)
The Lure of Autonomy, Collective Responsibility and the Emergence of a Shared Authority
- By Gaia Barbieri
- and Georges Gaillard
In Connexions (2025/1 n° 122)
The psychologist, the institution, and its changes, and Kulturarbeit
In Empan (2024/4 No 136)
Thinking the group: An epistemological stopper in psychoanalytic institutions
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2024/2 n° 83)
Intervening in institutions and working towards the emergence of an instance of group belonging
In Connexions (2024/1 No 120)
“The Work of Culture”: The cure and a few other spaces
In Le Coq-héron (2023/4 No 255)
Introduction
In Connexions (2023/2 No 119)
Early refusal, adolescent journey, and the educative relationship
- By Virginie Prignot
- and Georges Gaillard
In Adolescence (2023/1 41)
Working to make collectives (re)emerge
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2020/2 No 30)
Construction and implementing a “meta” position. “Training on the basis of practice” and its interweaving with the dynamic of institutions
- By Georges Gaillard
- and Jean-Marc Talpin
In Connexions (2020/1 No 113)
Contemporary evaporations. Collective responsibility in the context of the pandemic
- By Gaia Barbieri
- and Georges Gaillard
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2020/2 No 75)
“Ensavaging” of bodies, wandering subjects and the brutality of the world
- By Thierry Bruyère
- and Georges Gaillard
In Connexions (2018/2 No 110)
The vagaries of transmission: Self-engenderment, debt of alterity and work of historisation
In Psychologie clinique et projective (2018/1 No 24)
Transitional subversion in the daily life of practices of care and support
- By Sarah Gomez
- and Georges Gaillard
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2018/2 No 71)
The evaporation of collective responsibility and propping devices
- By Gaia Barbieri
- and Georges Gaillard
In Rhizome (2018/1 No 67)
Intervening in Institutions: Preserving Groupality and Restoring the Intermediate Area
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2017/1 No 68)
“Paulo Freire, the Notion of ‘Liberation,’ Group Clinic and Subjective Appropriation”
- By Pablo Castanho
- and Georges Gaillard
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2017/1 No 23)
Conflictuality: A modality of Linking in which Human Destructiveness is Anchored
In Connexions (2016/2 No 106)
Permitted to live?
The infans, confusion between life and death, and subjective appropriation
In Le Coq-héron (2016/1 No 224)
Psychological practices and culture work
In Rhizome (2015/4 No 58)
The Contributions of Psychoanalytic Work to the Psychotherapy of Psychoses
- By Vincent Di Rocco
- and Georges Gaillard
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2014/1 No 62)
The Hospital and the Challenge of Hypermodernity
In Bulletin de psychologie (2013/4 Issue 526)
Narcissism, Creativity, and Predation in Established Groups
- By Georges Gaillard
- and Guy Gimenez
In Bulletin de psychologie (2013/4 Issue 526)
An Institution in Search of Limits. The Myth of Tom Sawyer: A Collective Transitional Object
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2013/1 No 60)
Intergenerational Violence: A Case in Psychoanalytical Family Therapy
- By Christiane Joubert,
- Magali Ravit,
- Georges Gaillard,
- et al.
In Cliniques méditerranéennes (2013/1 No 87)
Active-Passive, Feminine-Phallic: The Work of Polarities within Teams
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2012/2 No 14)
The Analysis of Practices in Institutions: Support for the Professional Position in a Context of Management Influence
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2011/1 No 11)
Self-Reflexivity and Conflictuality in Instituted Groups
In Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie (2009/2 No 8)
Group Time and the Transformation of Affect
In Cliniques méditerranéennes (2009/2 No 80)
Power, Influence, and Generations within Institutions
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2008/2 No 51)
Open to Disconnection
Group Narcissism and Tolerance for Women in Institutions
In Connexions (2008/2 No 90)
Violence and Generation
An Institution Grappling with the Rejection of Temporality
In Cliniques méditerranéennes (2008/2 No 78)
Restoring Professionalism
Analysis of the Practice and Intersubjectivity
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2008/1 No 50)
Carrying Out the Primary Tasks: How Can Professional Bodies Protect Themselves from Confusion and Division?
Professional Groups and Their Links to the Institution
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2005/2 No 45)
Called to Invest, Urged to Abstinence: Intervention in Practice Analysis and the Institutional “Background”
In Connexions (2004/2 No 82)
From Repeating Trauma to Thinking About It: The Psychological Work of Professionals in Healthcare and Social Work Institutions
In Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe (2004/1 No 42)
Itzig’s Principle, Formation à partir de la pratique, and the University
In Connexions (2002/2 No 78)
