Danon-Boileau is Professor of General Linguistics and Language Acquisition at Universite Rene Descartes (Sorbonne, Paris V). He is also a practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the Societe Psychanalytique de Paris who works with children at the Centre Alfred-Binet, Paris. He has published widely in the area of linguistics, language acquisition, and psychoanalysis, and is also a published novelist.