Jacques Besson

Physician, psychiatrist, addiction specialist, former head of the Community Psychiatry Service of the Department of Psychiatry at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). Currently Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM) of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Humanities in Medicine (IHM). 

His interest in community psychiatry and mental health has led him, for many years, to study the relationships between psychiatry and religion, and between neuroscience and spirituality.