Philippe Courtet PhD

Philippe Courtet is a Professor of psychiatry at the University of Montpellier, and Head of the Department of Emergency & acute care Psychiatry at the Academic Hospital, Montpellier, France. He leads the Chair of excellence in the prevention of suicide of the Fondation Fondamental. He leads a research group on "vulnerability of suicidal behavior" in the INSERM. His areas of interest involve vulnerability to suicidal behavior in patients with a mood disorder, focusing on brain imaging and social pain. He is now implementing projects using web-based tools for assessing and managing suicidal patients.

Professor Courtet is chairman of the task force "suicide" of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, past-President of the French Association of Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology, and a member of the European Psychiatric Association and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has published 299 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and numerous book chapters, and edited three books on suicidal behavior.