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Philippe Tissié
Philippe Auguste Tissié (1852-1935) was one of the first neuropsychiatrists in France. Together with Pierre de Coubertin and Paschal Grousset, he was the founder of French physical education, developing the schooling system to include sports and games. He was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1932. Early life and medicine Philippe Auguste Tissié was born to a Protestant family in La Bastide-sur-l'Hers in the Ariège department in southwestern France. Orphaned, he had to work from an early age. After several menial jobs, he became deputy librarian at a faculty of medicine. As a late student of medicine, he presented his thesis called ''Les aliénés voyageurs : essai médico-psychologique'' (Traveling Madmen: A Medico-Psychological Paper) on 16 February 1887, examining the case of Jean-Albert Dadas and popularizing dromomania. The thesis was made under the mentorship of Albert Pitres, himself a disciple of Jean-Martin Charcot. His experience from the medicinal association of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bastide-sur-l'Hers
La Bastide-sur-l'Hers (, literally ''La Bastide on the Hers-Vif, Hers''; oc, La Bastida d'Èrç) is a Communes of France, commune in the Ariège (department), Ariège Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie region of southwestern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Bastidhersois'' or ''Bastidhersoises''. Geography La Bastide-sur-l'Hers is located some 28 km south-east of Pamiers and 3 km north-east of Lavelanet. Access to the commune is by the D620 road from Laroque-d'Olmes in the north-west which goes east through the commune and the village and continues east to Le Peyrat. The D16 comes from L'Aiguillon in the south and passes north inside the eastern border of the commune to the village then continues north to join the D28A south of Léran. A former railway line now a walking trail passes through the commune from west to east just north of the village. The commune has two large belts of forest across th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dromomania
Dromomania was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was uncontrollable urge to walk or wander. Dromomania has also been referred to as travelling fugue. Non-clinically, the term has come to be used to describe a desire for frequent traveling or wanderlust. Etymology The term ''dromomania'' is derived from combining the Greek , meaning "running" with the root '' mania''. The term has sometimes been clinical and pathologizing, and other times been descriptive of unusual enthusiasm without negative or medicalizing connotations, reflecting the diverse uses of the term mania itself. In the 17th century, the term ''mania'' came to be used to describe any show of great enthusiasm for a specific activity or object. Later, it came to be used as a suffix for Greek words to refer to an irrational obsession, such as in the words ''hippomania'', and ''nymphomania''. At the same time emerged the French , such as in , which was borrowed into English as ''bibliomania''. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Neurologists
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