PASCAL,CONSTANCE, FIRST FRENCH WOMAN PSYC HIATRIST AND MEMBER OF THE SOCIETE-MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGIQUE - HER LIFE, HER WORK

Citation
Jm. Barbier et al., PASCAL,CONSTANCE, FIRST FRENCH WOMAN PSYC HIATRIST AND MEMBER OF THE SOCIETE-MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGIQUE - HER LIFE, HER WORK, Annales medico-psychologiques, 155(7), 1997, pp. 469-471
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychology
ISSN journal
00034487
Volume
155
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
469 - 471
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4487(1997)155:7<469:PFFWPH>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Born in Romania in 1877 and dead in France in 1937, Constance Pascal i s the first French woman psychiatrist. In her 1905-1937 medical career she gradually climbed up the rings of the asylum hierarchy, becoming first and Assistant Doctor and finally Chief Doctor of the '' departem ent de la Seine '', in Maison Blanche, Published in 1911 and antitled La demence precoce , her book taking up the kraepelinian concepts stil l remains her best known work today though she wrote anoter two books together with many publications. Interesting concepts like pharmacolog ical psychoanalysis, healding narco-analysis, or '' schizodemence prec oce '', grouping together schizophrenia and dementia praecox regarded as two, stages of the same mental disorder; have not spread out widely .