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Bridging mental health advocacy, content exigency, emotional depth and creativity to unfold the psyche's hidden realms.
My name is…
Gilles Deles-Velins
I am a psychoanalyst travelling between France and Latvia where I receive adults and children. I am also available remotely with various visioconference applications. I worked for 20 years in France in areas with particularly difficult medical demographics and a high level of social precariousness.
On this website I try to develop content that answer your most common questions and topics (see the F.A.Q) but also very specific researchs, articles or philosophical investigations. This reflects my background: both pragmatic and demanding in terms of content as I am involved in many cultural and research activities.
Whatever are your reasons for visiting this website, I will do my best to help you formulate the right questions and find the most appropriate answers together.
Itinerary
2025 Doctoral Student in Cognitive Psychology
Latvijas Universitate. State Funded.2024 Bachelor in psychology, Université Lyon 2 France, FPP (Practical experience based training)
2014 Master Philosophy of science/theory of knowledge, Highest Honors Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Final Thesis The Dream and its language a commentary of Dreaming by Norman Malcolm. (Highest Honors)
2011 Master 1 Philosophy - Toulouse 2 Le Mirail 2011, Highest Honours.
Final Thesis The epistemological aspects in the work of W.R. Bion. (Highest honors)
2003-2008 Education Welfare Social Worker
PUBLICATIONS (Selective list)
Deles, G. (2009). Figures anthropologiques et culturelles dans l'univers du jeu World of Warcraft. Adolescence, 273, 601-609. https://doi.org/10.3917/ado.069.0601
Deles, G. (2014) Du concept de faits et des effets du concept. Réflexions sur les conditions d’une heuristique de la description. Mousson. p. 119-139 https://doi.org/10.4000/moussons.2900
Deles, G. (2015) Ce reste, qui est la pensée in Reliquiae, ed. Viguier E.,Soulard, S., Moreno J., Presses universitaires du Mirail p. 113-126.
Main tools and methods : object relations, dream analysis, free association,transference/counter-transference insights, psychopathological evaluation hypothesis, games and drawings (children).
Psychoanalyst, private practice — 2009-Present
Neurotic, Psychotic and Border-Line patients. Children with anxiety crisis and developmental problems. Partnerships with local physicians, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. Training sessions in Ville-Evrard Psychiatric Hospital (Fr. Présentation de malades)
Two personal analysis (5 & 6 years) + Supervision.
Numerous participation to psychoanalytic seminars and working groups
Language skills
French Native Language
English Advanced C1 Level (IELTS Score 7)
Spanish B2 Level (No current practice)