Boris
Cyrulnik
French neurologist, psychiatrist, ethnologist, psychoanalyst and author, known for having developed the concept of resilience.
Dr Boris Cyrulnik is a French neurologist, psychiatrist, ethnologist and psychoanalyst. While head of a research group in clinical ethology at the Toulon-la-Seyne hospital (1972-1991), he published his first book, Mémoire de singe et paroles d’homme, in 1983. Several of his many books published since have been translated into at least 15 languages.
He has held the following positions: Chief Academic Officer at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities of Toulon (from 1996); President of the Châteauvallon National Center for Cultural Creation and Dissemination (from 1998); and President of the Annie and Charles Corrin Prize on the memory of the Shoah (from 2005).
Boris Cyrulnik is best known for having developed the concept of psychological resilience (rebirth from suffering). He also participated in the Attali Commission on the impediments to growth, headed by Jacques Attali. In one of his more recent books, Les âmes blessées (Wounded Souls), Boris tells the story of the birth of modern psychiatry and his endeavour to make his own mark on it.
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