Dr. Adrien Cascarino
Campus: Paris
Academic and personal website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sb2d87kAAAAJ&hl=fr
ORCID Number : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2488-1864
After studying Management at ESSEC Business School, Adrien Cascarino participated in the experimentation and implementation of the reform of the french Minimum Social Benefits, the “Revenu de Solidarité Active”. He then decided to study psychology and became a clinical psychologist, then a doctor of psychology and now teaches at ESSEC and at the University of Paris Cité. In parallel, he carried out several missions in West Africa and started working for ATIA in 2013, first as a field project manager in the Philippines for 2 years and then as a technical support officer in India and Madagascar for 5 years. Since January 2021, he is co-director of ATIA.
Adrien joined Forward College in 2022 and has since taught Understanding Individual Differences at Forward’s Paris campus.
Research
Overview of research interest & accomplishments
- Non Suicidal Self-Injury
- Adolescence
- Poverty
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Psychoanalysis
- Grounded Theory
- Transhumanism
Selected publications and outputs
Journal articles
- Cascarino Adrien, « Scarifications : une énigme insupportable », Santé Mentale, 2026, 304, p. 36‑41.
- Boutin Delphine, Filipkowski Nina et Cascarino Adrien, « Sensibiliser à la violence domestique à travers les réseaux de microfinance », Papiers de Recherche de l’AFD, 2025, 393.
- Cascarino Adrien, « Supporter l’impuissance pour “soigner” les scarifications », Rhizome, 2022, 83, p. 78‑86.
- Cascarino Adrien et Votadoro Pablo, « Le cutter contre le marteau : la scarification comme pratique subversive », Cliniques méditerranéennes, 2021, 104, p. 43‑59.
- Cascarino Adrien et Sébert Anne-Laure, « Les scarifications à l’adolescence : un autre regard », Neuropsychiatrie de l’Enfance et de l’Adolescence, 2019, 67, 5, p. 251‑256.
- Cascarino Adrien, « Le Body Art : un autre modèle pour penser les scarifications », Evolution Psychiatrique, 2018, 83, 1, p. 149‑160.
Conference attendance and proceedings
- « Les scarifications : une énigme insupportable », 11ème rencontre soignante en psychiatrie, Santé Mentale, Paris, 2025.
- « Hors des essais contrôles randomisés : pas d’impact ? », Impact Tank, Conseil économique social et environnemental, Paris, 2025.
- « Scarifications et suicide », Groupe de travail de l’Observatoire National du Suicide, DREES, 2025.
- « La prise en charge des scarifications adolescentes », Conférences du SUPEA, Université de Toulouse, 2025.
- « Developing a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Family Therapy in Poorest of the Poor Community », 11ème Biennale de l’Asian Association of Social Psychology, Aout 2015.
Books and book chapters
Cascarino Adrien, Scarifications: L’adolescent, les parents et les soignants face à l’insupportable, Toulouse, Eres, 2024.
Research group affiliations
Chair of the Steering Committee, PAIRES Project (IRD-AFD Partnership)
- Lead Coordinator for meetings involving researchers associated with the PAIRES research project: “Evaluation of Domestic Violence Awareness Programs.”
- Supervisor for a PhD candidate under a CIFRE industrial research contract, in partnership with the University of Bordeaux.
- Qualitative Analyst for individual interviews and focus groups conducted in Madagascar
Current teaching
Understanding Individual Differences
