Juan-David Nasio

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer. Photo taken by Carole Bellaïche.

Juan-David Nasio (born 1942 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founders of Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris.

Biography After qualifying as a doctor from the University of Buenos Aires, Nasio completed his residency as a psychiatrist at the hospital in Lanús. In 1969, he emigrated to France where he attended the classes of Jacques Lacan.

He was a professor at the University of Paris VII Sorbonne for 30 years from 1971

In addition to participating in Lacan's seminars and translating his Écrits into Spanish, he is the author of 27 books published in French, six of which have been translated into English. Including English, his books have been translated into 14 languages: German, Chinese, Korean, Danish, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Turkish.

From 2022 to 2024, he told twenty-two patient stories in the radio program L’inconscient (France Inter), which aired weekly and reached a wide audience, according to France Inter.

Distinctions 1999: Knight of Legion of Honor. 2001: Illustrious citizen of the city of Rosario. 2004: Officer of ordre national du Mérite. 2012: Doctor honoris causa of the University of Buenos Aires and of the University of Tucuman. 2015: Doctor honoris causa of the Autonomous University of Mexico State. 2016: Doctor honoris causa of the University of Rosario and of the University 21 Century of Córdoba. 2017: Doctor honoris causa of the Southern Connecticut State University. 2025 : Officier de la légion d’Honneur (France)