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ABOUT

Heart Studio has been created by Catherine Couanet in USA in order to help the change and the optimization of skills and abilities that everyone needs to

develop and increase in a lifetime. Art, Coaching, Hypnosis, and Talking

sessions are the most efficient tools for the creation of oneself.

To eliminate barriers and find resources, sessions can

take place on sites, online, or can come to you.

Sessions are opened to adults, teenagers and children. 

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 Catherine Couanet is originally an art professor, with a PhD, and a French therapist, with a Master of Psychoanalysis. She has been trained in United States and France to Art, Psychotherapy and Erickson's Hypnosis. She is granted by the green card for "extraordinary ability in the Art".She has opened an art studio in the famous institution for teenagers "Maison Des Adolescents", in Paris. She has taught at several Universities, done many lectures and published articles and books (ASU, Paris8 University, Salvador de Bahia University in Brazil, ...). She has been working with many international institutions and schools. She is currently part of the board of the Alliance Française of Greater Phoenix.

Collaborations and partnerships 

French Institute-Alliance Française of Greater Phoenix, Arizona State University, University of Paris8, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, San Diego Art Institute, MOCA of Tucson, International School of Arizona, Waldorf School, Parsons School, San Diego Art Institute, School of Art and University of Salvador de Bahia, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, MDA-Paris, Institute of Hungary-Paris, INHA (National Institute of Art History, Paris), Fondation de France, Palais du Luxembourg, Laval University-Quebec, Arts Council-Kings Foundation United Kingdom, DATIS-ESAG Penninghen, Prep’Art, National and Superior School of Fine Arts-Paris, French Ministry of Education, ...

Publications

“Subjective Goals”, in Le Nouvel Observateur magazine

“The Sensitive Image”, in Psycho Media n°29, ERES Press

“Art: The Stomach of Desire”, in Le Coq Héron n°203, ERES Press    

“Self-Portrait ”, in O Sensivel Contemporaneo, Salvador Bahia, Sistema de Bibliotecas – UFBA Press

“Revolutionary Capital of Images”, in Photography, Media and Capitalism, Eidos-L’Harmattan Press

“Self-portrait, gender and sexuality in Photography”, in Photography & Contemporary, L’Harmattan, Collection Eidos

Politics of Body Photography, co-edited by Catherine Couanet, François Soulages and Marc Tamisier, Klincksieck

“Artistic Practice needed for teenager”, Conference proceedings Art and Culture sharing, VSART, Palais du Luxembourg

“Deszö Kosztolanyi”, in Journal of Hungarian Studies, L’Harmattan Press

“In the Mirror,” in Le Coq Héron n°185, Psychoanalysis and Literary Creation, Journal of Psychoanalysis, ERES Press

“Andreï Roublev”, in Cultura Visual n°6, Journal of Aesthetics, School of Visual Arts / Salvador University Press, Bahia

“Image and Desire”, in Marges n°3, Journal of the Visual Arts Department, Paris 8 University Press

“Bodies Manifesto”, in Photography & Political Bodies 10, L'Harmattan, coll. Eidos, série Photographie

© All Rights Reserved Catherine Couanet

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