Françoise Cloarec

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are essay. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Distinctions recorded are Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, from which she graduated in 1972, Françoise Cloarec turned to Psychoanalysis, preparing a doctorate in psychoanalysis on Séraphine Louis at Paris Diderot University, which she defended in 1984. In addition to her work as a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist at the Ville-Évrard hospital, she is also a painter, having exhibited at the Jardin du Luxembourg orangery in 2000. Françoise Cloarec is also a writer. She has written several books on women artists (Séraphine Louis, Camille Claudel, Marie Laurencin), as well as novels about Syria, a country that made a deep impression on her when she discovered it in 1993 during a conference and exhibition of her paintings in Aleppo. She became a Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001, and in 2017 and 2018 was a member of the jury for the Prix Anaïs-Nin. Part of the “Montluc, Résistance et Liberté” literary prize.

• 1998: Bîmâristâns, lieux de folie et de sagesse, L'Harmattan, Paris • 2000: Syrie, un voyage en soi, L'Harmattan • 2002: Le Caravansérail, L’Harmattan, 206 p. • 2003: Le Temps des consuls. L’Échelle d’Alep sous les Ottomans, L’Harmattan, 171 p., 147 p. • 2008: Séraphine. La Vie rêvée de Séraphine de Senlis, Paris, Éditions Phébus, 172 p.. • 2010: Storr. Architecte de l’ailleurs, Éditions Phébus, 170 p. • 2010: Quand la mer peint, photos by Monique Pietri, Libourne, France, La part des anges éditions, 59 p. • 2013: L’Âme du savon d’Alep, photos by Marc Lavaud, Paris, Éditions Noir sur Blanc, 200 p. • 2014: De père légalement inconnu, Éditions Phébus, 148 p. • 2016: L’Indolente. Le Mystère Marthe Bonnard, Paris, Stock, series "La Bleue", 352 p.