Scientific Committee for Awards and Grants
Below are summaries of the professional careers of the members of the Scientific Committee for Awards and Grants
Dr. Gisèle Apter Danon
With a double training in psychiatry and in psychopathology, Dr Gisèle Apter is a researcher in psychopathology and perinatal psychiatry She is a specialist in child psychiatry and perinatal medicine, and is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Enfances et Psy (published by Erès), L'Information Psychiatrique (published by John Libbey-Eurotext) and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins).
She is responsible for the following functional units of the EPS Erasme Hospital: PPUMMA (Mobile Emergency Maternal Perinatal Psychiatry), 7th Hauts-de-Seine inter-sector) and RePPEr (Research in Psychiatry and Psychopathology at Erasme). She organises the RIME network (research on interactions between mother and baby), a joint research platform between Paris Descartes-Paris Diderot (PRES Paris-Cités) and Paris Ouest Nanterre.
She teaches baby psychopathology and interactions at the Paris 7 Denis Diderot University.
Drina Candilis-Huisman
A psychologist and psychoanalyst, Drina Candilis-Huismanis is a teacher-researcher at the UFR Human Sciences clinics at the Paris Diderot University. She works in perinatal medicine and the problems related to the desire for a child and childbirth.
She is the author of Rencontre avec T. Berry Brazelton (Erès, 2011) and Naître, et après ? Du bébé à l’enfant (Gallimard, 1997). She has also published articles in a number of works, including, to cite only the most recent: Cent mots pour les bébés d’aujourd’hui (Erès, 2009), Les Professionnels de la périnatalité accueillent le handicap (Erès, 2009), Bébés et cultures (Erès, 2008)…
In addition, she is working on a specific introduction to parenthood for handicapped persons (sensorial and motor) at the Institut de puériculture (Institute of Child Care) in Paris.
Laurent Danon-Boileau
Laurent Danon-Boileau is a psychoanalyst, a training member of the Psychoanalysis Society of Paris and a professor of linguistics at Paris 5 René Descartes. He is also a researcher at the CNRS (national centre for scientific research) (Modyco, UMR 7114).
He works with children affected by severe language and communication difficulties at the Alfred Binet Centre, which is located in the 13th arrondissement in Paris.
He is the author of research works such as L’enfant qui ne disait rien (Odile Jacob, 2010), Les troubles du langage et de la communication chez l'enfant (PUF, Que sais-je ?, 2009), La parole est un jeu d’enfant fragile (Odile Jacob, 2007), and Des enfants sans langage (Odile Jacob, 2002). He has also published several novels, and stories for children.
Mylène Hubin-Gayte
Mylène Hubin-Gayte is a lecturer in developmental psychology. For 20 years, she was a teacher-researcher at the Université de Picardie. Her field of clinical and research activity is principally maternity. She is currently a psychologist in private practice, and takes part in many training activities, principally on perinatal issues, and on the evaluation of early interactions.
Her particular research topics are early mother-baby relationships, mother-child attachment, perinatal psychopathology, and inter-individual variability between infants. In addition to numerous articles in specialist journals and university works, she has published Les Jumeaux du pareil au même (Gallimard, “Découvertes”, 1998), and has collaborated in editing several volumes published by Le Cavalier Bleu.
Jean-François Magny
Head of the reanimation and neonatal paediatrics department at the Childcare and Perinatology Institute (Institut de puériculture et de périnatalogie - IPP) in Paris since the end of 2009, Jean-François Magny also worked as a practitioner in paediatrics and neonatal reanimation at the Antoine Béclère de Clamart Hospital, in Hauts-de-Seine, from 1989 to 1993, and then as the associate head of department at the IPP from 1993 to 2009.
He also teaches the third cycle at medical universities, as well as in nursing and paediatric nursing schools.
Chairman of the committee for the fight against nosocomial infection (Comité de Lutte contre les Infections Nosocomiales - C.L.I.N.) at the IPP between 1994 and 2009, Jean-François Magny has published numerous articles and chapters in works in specialist publications. He has also been Secretary General of the Neonatology Studies Group of the Ile-de-France region since 1995.
Dr. Linda Morisseau
Since September 2001, Linda Morisseau, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has been the Head of Department of the Infant Guidance Centre and the paedo-psychiatry day hospital at the Childcare and Perinatology Institute (Institut de puériculture et de périnatalogie - IPP) in Paris. Formerly, she was in practice as the psychiatrist responsible for the joint mother-baby hospitalisation unit at the Théophile Roussel Institute in Montesson, Yvelines.
She currently teaches in the university diploma (DU) programmes in perinatology in Nancy, and in perinatal psychopathology in Bobigny. Since 2008, she has also been taking part in joint research with the Neonatology Department of the IPP on “Oral-alimentary problems in the premature infant”.
Dr. Morisseau has published numerous articles in scientific reviews and edited the work Lorsque la Parentalité paraît (PUF, “Le fil rouge”, 2009). She has also carried out several missions for non-governmental organisations (Association Partage, Médecins du Monde) in Bangladesh, Croatia, Albania and Macedonia.
Prof. Marie Rose Moro
With an education in philosophy, Marie Rose Moro is a doctor of medicine and in human sciences.
Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Paris Descartes University, she is Head of Department of the Cochin adolescent centre, Maison de Solenn (social welfare) in Paris.
A leader in ethno-psycho-analysis and cross-cultural psychiatry in France, she is founder and chairman of the Association Internationale d’EthnoPsychanalyse - AIEP (International Ethno-Psychoanalysis Association) She created and runs the cross-cultural consultancy for migrant children at the Avicenna Hospital in Bobigny. Among her most recent works, we should mention Nos enfants demain. Pour une société multiculturelle (Odile Jacob, 2010); Les ados expliqués à leurs parents (Bayard, 2010); and Aimer ses enfants ici et ailleurs. Histoires transculturelles (Odile Jacob, 2007).
Her Internet site is : www.marierosemoro.fr
Catherine Rollet
A historian and demographer, Catherine Rollet is Emeritus Professor of the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and a member of the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
She has worked on the contemporary challenges of the changes in world population, the protection of childhood, abandoned children, the registration of stillborn infants in the 19th Century, and the 1911 heat wave.
Among her most recent works are La population du monde - Nouvelle édition (Larousse, 2010), Les carnets de santé des enfants (La Dispute, 2008) and Les Enfants du XIXe siècle (Hachette, 2001). She is preparing a biography of Paul Strauss (1852-1942) who played a major role in the protection of childhood and public health under the 3rd Republic.
