All my life, I’ve loved building bridges. Between disciplines, between worlds, between cultures. Bringing together different sources, allowing their differences to interact, and observing the resonances that emerge. In my professional practice, this has taken the form of a constant search for alliances between conventional medicine and certain complementary approaches. This approach, now recognized under the name of Integrative Health (or holistic medicine), places the individual at the center of care, by valorizing the diversity of therapeutic resources.
Among the most fruitful bridges I’ve been fortunate enough to build, the one between therapeutic hypnosis and Japanese culture has profoundly transformed me. This encounter, which took place a dozen years ago, awakened in me a new understanding of care and presence. I discovered many affinities between these two worlds: a keen attention to sensations, a deep respect for silence, an openness to what happens, beyond control.
Building bridges also means welcoming otherness. Interpersonal otherness, which helps us define ourselves in the eyes of others. But also cultural otherness, which forces us to shift our reference points and broaden our understanding of the world. I firmly believe that it is in this encounter with the other, with the stranger, that the human being is built and enriched. It is here, in this space between self and other, that true transformations are born.
Main research topic
- Resonances between hypnotherapy and Japanese culture.
- The book Hypnose-Japon, rencontre en résonance, published in 2024, is the first step in this research.
- A second book is currently in preparation. It aims to explore the many resonances between hypnotherapy and Japanese philosophy, in particular the work of Nishida Kitarō and Watsuji Tetsurō.
Group of Franco-Japanese therapists
In parallel with this personal research, I coordinate a group of Franco-Japanese therapists, with the aim of broadening the field of exploration and working in a spirit that is both intercultural and interdisciplinary.
This group is a Japanese branch of Health United, the Association for Integrative Health, which has a strong presence in France and many other countries.
