Henri Legrand du Saulle
Henri Legrand du Saulle (Dijon, 16 April 1830 – Paris, 5 May 1886) was a French psychiatrist.
As a young man he worked as an assistant to Bénédict Morel (1809-1873) at Saint-Yon, and also served under Louis-Florentin Calmeil (1798-1895) at the Charenton Asylum. In 1856 became a doctor to the medical faculty in Paris. Later on, he was appointed physician at the Bicêtre Hospital (replacing Prosper Lucas 1805-1885), and in 1879 succeeded Louis Delasiauve (1804-1893) as chief physician in the department for epileptics at Salpêtrière Hospital.[1] During his career he was also associated with the Dépôt de la Préfecture de police, serving from 1863 as médecin-adjoint to Charles Lasègue (1816-1883).[2]
He is known for his studies on personality disorders, particularly pioneer work involving phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders. He also performed extensive work in forensic psychiatry, being interested with the medical-judicial aspects of psychopathology.[3]
Selected writings
- La folie devant les tribunaux (1864).
- Prisbelönt av Institutet, Pronostic et traitement d’épilepsie (1869).
- Le délire des persécutions (1871).
- La folie héréditaire (1873).
- Traité de médecine legale, de jurisprudence médicale et de toxicologie (1874).
- La folie du doute avec délire du toucher (1875).
- Étude médico-légale sur les épileptiques (1877).
- Étude clinique sur la peur des espaces (1878).
- Étude médico-légale sur l’interdiction des aliénés (1880).
- Les hystériques (1882).
References
- An Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry by Edward Shorter
- Psychiatrie histoire (biography in French)
- ↑ The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1 for 1879
- ↑ Edfrenesie Legrand du Saulle, Henri - La Folie du doute (avec délire du toucher).
- ↑ Hysterical Psychosis: A Historical Survey by Katrien Libbrecht