Jean Benjamin Stora is a psychosomatician and psychoanalyst. He was President of the Pierre Marty Institute of Psychosomatics from 1989 to 1992 and the Societe Francaise de Medecine Psychosomatique from 2000 to 2002. He is a consultant in psychosomatics at the teaching hospital of La Pitie-Salpetriere, working in the endocrinology unit and the center for prevention of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.