Marie-France Hirigoyen
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Dr Marie-France Hirigoyen (born 1949, France
) is a psychiatrist
, psychoanalyst
and psychotherapist
specialising in mobbing, a form of bullying. Her interest in stress
led her in the mid-1980s into victimology
, a branch of criminology
. She later turned her attention to workplace stress
generated by mobbing behaviour.
Her publications include Le harcèlement moral, la violence perverse au quotidien (1998), which sold 450,000 copies in her native France and was translated
and sold in 24 other countries
.
She has made several television
appearances in France, and in 2006 she was invited onto the Spanish Television
programme Carta blanca
by guest presenter Lucía Etxebarría
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) is a psychiatrist
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
, psychoanalyst
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
and psychotherapist
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a general term referring to any form of therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client or patient; family, couple or group...
specialising in mobbing, a form of bullying. Her interest in stress
Stress (medicine)
Stress is a term in psychology and biology, borrowed from physics and engineering and first used in the biological context in the 1930s, which has in more recent decades become commonly used in popular parlance...
led her in the mid-1980s into victimology
Victimology
Victimology is the scientific study of victimization, including the relationships between victims and offenders, the interactions between victims and the criminal justice system — that is, the police and courts, and corrections officials — and the connections between victims and other social groups...
, a branch of criminology
Criminology
Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...
. She later turned her attention to workplace stress
Workplace stress
Workplace stress is the harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a poor match between job demands and the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker....
generated by mobbing behaviour.
Her publications include Le harcèlement moral, la violence perverse au quotidien (1998), which sold 450,000 copies in her native France and was translated
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
and sold in 24 other countries
Country
A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
.
She has made several television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
appearances in France, and in 2006 she was invited onto the Spanish Television
Televisión Española
Televisión Española is the national state-owned public-service television broadcaster in Spain. TVE's activities were previously financed by a combination of advertising revenue and subsidies from the national government, but since it's been supported by subsidies only.TVE belongs to the RTVE...
programme Carta blanca
Carta blanca (TVE)
Carta blanca is a TVE television programme, developed by Santiago Tabernero, written by María Carrión, Borja Echebarría and Paco Tomás, produced by Gloria Concostrina and broadcast by TVE2 and the TVE Internacional, where a guest selects several other guests for interviews and/or performances....
by guest presenter Lucía Etxebarría
Lucía Etxebarría
Lucía Etxebarría de Asteinza is a Spanish writer. She was born in Valencia in 1966, of Basque parents as her name suggests, the youngest of seven children. The Basque surname Etxebarria has no diacritics, although its Spanish version Echevarría has...
.
External references
- Acoso Moral
- Marie-France Hirigoyen official website
- Marie-France Hirigoyen page on the Internet Movie Database