Jeannette Abou Nasr Daccache is interested in psychoanalysis and decides to study psychology. She then undergoes psychoanalytic training at SPADEA_SEPEA. She later moves to Paris and becomes a member of the European Foundation for Psychoanalysis. She teaches at Saint Joseph University and later teaches psychology at the University of Saint Esprit Kaslik and the Lebanese University. She has given a course on psychoanalytic psychodrama at USEK and has taught psychology in various medical fields, nursing, social work, hospital departments, midwifery, and speech therapy. She has conducted a conference on women with SPIAL and has participated in conferences and seminars in Europe (France, Madrid, Italy) and in Dubai (UAE). During the COVID-19 pandemic, she conducted a seminar on psychic immunity, aiming to promote psychoanalysis globally and in Lebanon. She supervises doctoral theses in Lebanon and co-supervises them in France at Paris 7 and Jules Verne on topics related to women, eating disorders, and the function of time. Her diverse research topics include suicide, fantasy, incest, and she conducted a seminar on analytic treatment for various illnesses such as melancholy and depression, as well as a sequence on the interpretation of psychic bisexuality in transference.

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Education and Professional Background:

Jeannette Abou Nasr Daccache is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst born in Beirut. She is also a University Professor and the founder of SPIAL. She holds a doctorate in Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis, completing her thesis on "Psychic Bisexuality and Eating Disorders" at Paris 7 Sorbonne in 2011, published in 2012 as "Manger pour deux maigrir pour l’autre" recognized in the National Library of France (BNF). She received training at SPADEA – SEPEA and has directed psychology theses while being a member of the research center for psychoanalysis and medicine at Paris 7 (CRPMS). In Lebanon, she practices as a psychoanalyst in her private clinic, specializing in patients with eating disorders. In France, she is a member of the European Foundation for Psychoanalysis and actively involved in the Antenne de France. In the United States, she is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and in Lebanon, she serves on the disciplinary committee of LOPSY. She is the president of SPIAL with a focus on rigor.

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Thoughts:

Jeannette Abou Nasr Daccache specialized into various subjects, including food addiction and bisexuality. Her notable works revolve around sexual identity and the perversion manifested in behavior. She challenged some of Sigmund Freud's theories by highlighting the formation of the sense of identity and detailing the phantom aspect and alienating influence in eating disorders. Her unique psychoanalytic approach to psychic bisexuality involves studying its ontogenetic development in the subjective sense of sexual identity. She hypothesizes that an adhesive identification between the mother and her son, combined with the absence or passive presence of the father, leads to extreme femininity in boys. Actively engaged in current debates, she opposes what she perceives as the "lack of feminine structure" in psychology and advocates for a feminine structure in the field of humanities. She connects psychic bisexuality to symptoms such as anorexia and bulimia, introducing the concept of psychic envelope as a defense mechanism against childhood traumatic shocks. Her theoretical and methodological foundations revolve around the harmony between feminine and masculine aspects. She explores the impact of psychic bisexuality on subject structuring, veiling and unveiling unconscious desires. She views Freudian psychoanalysis as both a theoretical corpus and a method that engages with suffering in analytic treatment. She contributes to the epistemological reflection on the relationship between clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, analyzing the discourse of psychosomatic patients and emphasizing concepts like the "eruption of forgetting" closely linked to Freudian repression. Through her work, she develops a psychopathological model of memory distant from memory, actualizing in the recognition of emotion and making thought the recognition of symptoms. She actively volunteered with SPIAL, treating 100 individuals after the August 4th explosion trauma, enriching her theoretical and clinical construction.