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Claude Halmos

French psychoanalyst and essayist (1946–2026)

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Halmos was born into a Hungarian Jewish family; her father had escaped the Holocaust. A member of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, she studied child psychology under Françoise Dolto at the École expérimentale de Bonneuil-sur-Marne. She wrote numerous articles detailing her studies of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. She notably had her works published by Fayard and Casterman. From 1992 to 1997, she gave talks on the Canal+ show La Grande Famille. She was also a regular contributor to the French edition of the women's magazine Psychologies.

Halmos died on 9 July 2026, at the age of 80.

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