Michel de M'Uzan is a neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a former director of the Institut de Psychanalyse of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), a founding member of the Paris Institute of Psychosomatics (IPSO), and co-director of the collection 'Le Fil Rouge' at the Presses Universitaires de France. He has published several books on psychoanalysis, including 'De l'art a la mort', 'La Bouche de l'inconscient', and 'Aux confins de l'identite', as well as several fictional works. He is also the author of the 'Anthologie du delire' (Rocher, 1956).