Jean-Pierre Winter

Jean-Pierre Winter (28 April 1951 – 9 December 2025) was a French psychoanalyst and writer.

Life and career

Winter was born in Paris on 28 April 1951, to exiled Hungarian and Jewish parents, his father was originally from Transylvania, and later emigrated to Budapest.[1]

He was a co-founder of the "Freudian Cost Movement". He taught child psychopathology at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and the College of Jewish Studies of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU).[2] In 2019, he became a member of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE).[3]

In 2023, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor.[4]

Winter died on 9 December 2025, at the age of 74.[5]

References

  1. ^ La-Croix.com (8 January 2013). "Jean-Pierre Winter : « À mon insu j'avais répété l'histoire de mon père »". La Croix (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Akadem : Le campus numérique juif". Akadem (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  3. ^ "Jean-Pierre-WINTER" (PDF).
  4. ^ Décret du 13 juillet 2023 portant nomination.
  5. ^ à 21h53, Par Le Parisien avec AFP Le 9 décembre 2025 (9 December 2025). "Jean-Pierre Winter, figure emblématique de la psychanalyse, est mort à l'âge de 74 ans". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)