Jean-Pierre Winter

Jean-Pierre Winter was a French psychoanalyst and writer.

Life and career

Winter was born in Paris on 28 April 1951, to exiled Hungarian and Jewish parents, his father was originally from Transylvania, and later emigrated to Budapest.
He was a co-founder of the "Freudian Cost Movement". He taught child psychopathology at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and the College of Jewish Studies of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. In 2019, he became a member of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church.
In 2023, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Winter died on 9 December 2025, at the age of 74.