Committees

Arnaud Plagnol

Psychiatrist, PhD in philosophy, PhD in cognitive science, professor of psychology at University Paris 8, member of Laboratoire Psychopathologie et Processus de Changement, attaché à l'ESAT COS-Regain, chercheur associé à l'IPC, l'IHPST et l'ILPEM.

Bernard Pachoud

Psychiatrist and professor of psychopathology at Paris Cité University. His work focuses on care paradigms in psychosocial rehabilitation, contemporary medical humanities, and the phenomenological approach in psychiatry.

Dr. Yann Auxéméry

Private-practice psychiatrist, an addiction specialist, an accredited research supervisor in psychology (HDR) and an aeromedical examiner. Director of the École de Psychologues Praticiens (Paris – Lyon) and lecturer at the Centre Pierre Janet of the University of Lorraine, he is Secretary General of the Société Médico-Psychologique and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the journal Annales Médico-Psychologiques. His work focuses on psychotraumatology, epistemology, psychotherapies and psycholinguistics.

Prof. KWM (Bill) Fulford

Fellow of St Catherine's College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; and Founder Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice, St Catherine's College, Oxford (valuesbasedpractice.org).

Prof. Matthew Broome BSc (Hons) MBChB (Hons) PGCAP PhD PhD FRCPsych (he/him)

Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, Director of the Institute for Mental Health and Director of The Midlands Translational Centre, Mental Health Mission at the University of Birmingham; Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford; and Visiting Professor, Suor Orsola Benicasa University of Naples, and at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. Matthew is currently editor for Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. He is series editor for the Oxford University Press International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series.

Prof. Bruno Falissard

Child and adolescent psychiatry, pr. in biostatistics Paris-Saclay University. Director of CESP/INSERM U1018 (Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations). Past-president de la SFPEADA (Société Française de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent et Disciplines Associées).

Dr. Christophe Gauld MD, PhD

Associate Professor at Lyon 1 University and a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, France. His work lies at the intersection of psychiatry and computational science, with a particular focus on psychiatric symptoms, developmental psychopathology, and on philosophy of sleep medicine and child psychiatry.

Victoria Cazes

Peer worker, mental health trainer and author. She uses creativity and imagination as a lever for mental health recovery.

Tudi Gozé

Psychiatrist and philosopher, associate professor of psychiatry in Toulouse University. He is a specialist of contemporary french and german phenomenology. His research focuses on intersubjective experience in schizophrenia, in psychopathology, psychotherapy, and recovery trajectories. He is the author of Phénoménologie et schizophrénie : recherches pour une anthropologie du contact (Hermann 2024).

François Petitjean

Psychiatrist, Associate Editor of Annales Medico Psychologique, and member of the Board of Directors of the association Les Ailes déployées.

Dr. Antonio Sucena Leon

Doctor Antonio Sucena Leon is a philosopher and psychologist, MD, PhD, in private practice. A mental health expert, he is a researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His research focuses primarily on the study of consciousness, exploring its intersections with psychology, philosophy, and contemporary sciences.