Psychoanalyst in Riga, Latvia — Adults and Children

Your ally to overcome psychic pain

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. I trained and practiced for 15 years in France in areas with particularly difficult medical demographics and  a high level of social precariousness.

Psychoanalysis begins with listening. Whatever brings you here, whether it is a persistent suffering, a sense that something has become meaningless, I’ll do my best to offer a space where thinking becomes possible again.  For questions about child therapy, online sessions, or practical matters, the FAQ may help find an answer

This website is also a space for research. In the blog I explore psychoanalytic thinking in dialogue with philosophy, science, and contemporary life. If you are a colleague, a student, or simply curious about what psychoanalysis has to say about the world we live in, you are welcome here too.

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Itinerary

  • 2025 Doctoral Student in Cognitive Psychology
    Latvijas Universitate. State Funded.

  • 2024 Bachelor in psychology, UniversitĂ© 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.

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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)