Paul Sérieux (; 1864–1947) was a French

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their ...

who was a native of

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. 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

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and

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al thought processes, and his collaborative work with Joseph Capgras (1873–1950). With Capgras, he described a type of non-

schizophrenic Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withd ...

, 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

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(1856–1926) into French psychiatry. With his one-time mentor

Valentin Magnan Valentin Magnan (16 March 1835 – 27 September 1916) was a French psychiatrist active in the 19th-century. Biography Valentin Magnan was a native of Perpignan. He studied medicine in Lyon and Paris, where he was a student of Jules Bailla ...

(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 traveled widely throughout Europe, and created an extensive report on 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. * ''This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.''

External links

Le délire érotique
at Psychanalyse-Paris.com

{{DEFAULTSORT:Serieux, Paul French psychiatrists 1864 births 1947 deaths Physicians from Paris