Jean Delay
Jean Paul Louis Delay (born November 14, 1907 in Bayonne , † May 29, 1987 in Paris ) was a French psychiatrist , neurologist and writer .
From 1946 Jean Delay was professor at the Paris University Clinic for Psychiatry and chief physician at the St. Anne Psychiatric Hospital. In 1950 he headed the first World Congress of Psychiatry in Paris.
In 1952, together with his assistant Pierre Deniker , he published the first articles on the effectiveness of chlorpromazine in states of excitement and in particular in schizophrenia .
In 1959 Delay became a member of the Académie française . Among other things, he dealt with the biography of André Gide . He received the Grand Prix de la critique for his work Psychiatrie et psychologie de L'Immoraliste .
literature
- Driss Moussaoui : A biography of Jean Delay: first president of the World Psychiatric Association . Translated from the French by Peter Fletcher . Excerpta Medica , 2002, 120 pages. OCLC 222848339
- Delay, Jean , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 172
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Delay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jean Delay in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Jean Delay in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bangen, Hans: History of the drug therapy of schizophrenia. Berlin 1992 pp. 81–84 ISBN 3-927408-82-4 .
- ^ Profile of Jean Delay on the Académie française website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delay, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delay, Jean Paul Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayonne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1987 |
| Place of death | Paris |