Paul Sérieux
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"In France, the subject was taken up by Charcot In France and Magnan, the first important result of their investigation of sexual inversion being published, in 1882, in the Archives de Neurologie. Paul Sérieux, in his "Les Anomalies de l'instinct Sexuel/' published in Paris in 1888, made valuable contributions to our knowledge of the subject; which is further enriched by those of Lacassagne, of Brouardel and Legludic, in Paris, and of Tarnowsky in St. Petersburg"--Human Sexuality: A Medico-Literary Treatise on the History and Pathology of the Sex Instinct for the Use of Physicians and Jurists (1906) by Joseph Richardson Parke |
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Paul Sérieux (1864 – 1947) was a French psychiatrist who was a native of Paris. He practiced medicine in several French hospitals and asylums during his career, including the Asylum of Ville-Evrard and the hospital of Sainte-Anne. He also worked as a physician at the Asylum of Marsens in Switzerland.
Sérieux is best known for research of psychoses and delusional thought processes, and his collaborative work with Joseph Capgras (1873-1950). With Capgras, he described a type of non-schizophrenic, paranoid psychosis called délire d’interprétation, which is defined as a "chronic interpretive psychosis". Sérieux was also instrumental in introducing the theories of German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) into French psychiatry.
With his one-time mentor Valentin Magnan (1835-1916), he co-authored the book Le délire chronique a evolution systématique (1892), and in 1909 with Capgras, he published a treatise called Les folies raisonnantes. Sérieux travelled extensively throughout Europe, and created an extensive report concerning the state and conditions of psychiatric treatment in French, German, Swiss and Belgian mental asylums.
References
- 1904. L'Année Psychologique.,10, 532 : Paul Sérieux, 1903, Clinique psychiatrique de l’Université de Giessen (Grand Duché de Hesse), Arch. de neurologie, juillet, p. 15-31. Template:Fr
- This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.
