Patrick Landman, MD is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and jurist in Paris. He is the former president of the Convention Psychanalytique and member of the Board of Directors of Espace Analytique, an association for psychoanalytic training and Freudian research. He is also a founding member of the Collectif Initiative pour une Clinique du Sujet: STOP DSM, which advocates for alternative approaches to diagnosis and treatment that emphasize the social environment and psychic reality. He is the author of several books including Freud and Tristesse Business: le scandale du DSM 5.