[1] Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven since 1964, Jacques Schotte was an atypical psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
On the basis of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, Binswanger's Daseinsanalyse and Szondi's fate analysis, he has developed a new approach to the mentally ill man, he called "pathoanalysis.
Far from being only an outstanding theoretician, he always wanted to anchor his work in practical clinical experience, made of human encounters, in all their complexity and richness.
In his book, Un parcours (A journey), published in June 2006, he recounts his life as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
He was a close friend of the philosopher of art, Henri Maldiney, and of the Swiss psychiatrist, Roland Kuhn.