A new biography traces Françoise Dolto, the psychoanalyst who listened to children
Historian Emmanuelle Loyer has written a life of the pediatrician and psychoanalyst, praised by Le Monde's books section as capturing every facet of a woman it calls inhabited by the genius of childhood.
Le Monde's Livres section has published a highly favorable notice of a new biography of Françoise Dolto, the French psychoanalyst and pediatrician who died in 1988. According to the paper, the book is the work of historian Emmanuelle Loyer, who approaches Dolto's life with a historian's method rather than a clinician's or a disciple's.
Dolto became one of the most recognizable figures in French intellectual life through her work on the psychic life of children, and Le Monde describes Loyer's book as exploring all the facets of her existence. The review, published October 28, calls the biography 'magnifique' and frames Dolto as a woman inhabited by what it terms the genius of childhood.
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