Amy Cohen Varela is Chair of the Board of Directors of Mind & Life Europe and has been involved in Mind and Life since its inception. She is also a clinical psychologist specialising in psychodynamic therapy and philosophy. Amy studied comparative literature at Brown and Columbia Universities before moving to Paris in the early 1980s, where she earned her bachelor's degree in clinical psychology from the University of Paris 7, specializing in psychodynamic theory and practice, while simultaneously completing her psychoanalytic training.
