CV Science

Samuel Lézé Associate Professor

Course and current status

Associate Professor in medical anthropology at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon since 2010.

Director of the team "Dire la santé mentale" (DSM) Telling Mental health since 2016 at the IHRIM-UMR 5317 and MSH Paris-Nord, USR 3258 since 2010.

Member of the ethics committee of Le Vinatier psychiatric hospital (Bron) since 2020.

My research interests focuses on clinical judgment formation in psychiaty and its transformation in mental health policy.

Education

B.A. in Philosophy (University of Paris I-Sorbonne, 1997); M.A. in Philosophy (University of Paris I-Sorbonne, 1999), M.A. in Social Anthropology (University of Paris VIII- Saint-Denis, 1999) and Social Sciences (ENS-EHESS, 2000); Ph.D. in Social Sciences (ENS-EHESS, 2008); post-doc in Social Sciences (CNRS, IRIS, 2008-2010), Hdr (ENS de Lyon, 2014).

Scientific summary

Since 1999, I have been carrying out a series of case studies combining social history and ethnography on clinical authority in private and public practice of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts :

• the French organization of psychoanalysts in a context of the regulation of psychotherapy
• « Freud Wars » in France and USA
  
• a psychiatric day hospital for childs and teenagers
• the homoparentality controversy
• the psychiatric care in prison
• the judicial usages of forensic psychiatry
• the distress at workplace
• adolescent’s (especially working-class youth) mental health management (in the ERC research project Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology directed by Didier Fassin (http://morals.ias.edu ), 2008-2012).
•  Since 2011, and within the IFé (French Institute of Education), I have been interested in the issue of mental health education and promotion at school and the « well-being at school » programs
• Sexual health and mental health