Juliet Favez-Boutonnier (24 January 1903, Roquefort-les-Pins – 13 April 1994, Paris)data.bnf.fr, accessed 2017-02-05. was a French academic, psychologist and psychoanalyst.
Career After writing successive theses on ambivalence and angst,Juliette Favez-Boutonier Favez-Boutonnier became a member of the SFP in the tradition of Pierre Janet, working to have psychoanalysis accepted in academia as a form of psychology.E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (1999) p. 245
Having backed Margaret Clark-Williams in her dispute with the medical profession over lay analysis, in 1953 she joined Daniel Lagache in splitting from the SFP in protest over what they saw as over-medicalised training procedures.Favez-Boutonnier In 1964 she would return with him to the shelter of the IPA in the newly formed Association psychoanalytique de France.E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (1999) p. 258-9
In the wake of the May 1968 events in France, her efforts to establish a clinical social sciences section within academia were finally crowned with success.F. Dosse, History of Structuralism (1997) p. 137
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