Gérard Vachonfrance

{{Short description|French physician (1933–2008)}}

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Gérard Vachonfrance (30 March 1933, in Roubaix – 31 December 2008), was a French physician. He was a co-founder of the Société française d'alcoologie (French Society of Alcohology).

Vachonfrance and Pierre Fouquet were pioneers of alcohology as a medical discipline.{{Cite book |last=Singainy |first=Erick Jean-Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbbUAQAAQBAJ |title=La rencontre thérapeutique avec l'alcoolique |date=2013-11-01 |publisher=Editions L'Harmattan |isbn=978-2-336-32877-5 |pages=14 |language=fr}} He was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst open to unorthodox practices such as transactional analysis. He was an unconditional supporter of discussion groups and mutual assistance.