Guislain, Joseph
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| born on | 2 February 1797 at 06:00 (= 06:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Gand, Belgium, 51n03, 3e43 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m3e43 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   13°58'   12°17 Asc. 10°11'
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Biography
Belgian physician and a pioneer in psychiatry, who published his Traité sur les phrénopathies in 1833, in which he proposed a new form of psychiatric classification. He argued that although mental illnesses could take many forms they were all derived from the same single disease process. This gave rise to the psychiatric doctrine of unitary psychosis which was highly influential in German psychiatry from the mid-nineteenth century. In his three-volume work Leçons orales sur les phrénopathies of 1852 he further expanded his vision on mental illness.
He died in Ghent on 1 April 1860, aged 63.
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Source Notes
Grazia Bordoni's Science database quotes Gauquelin.
Categories
- Vocation : Healing Fields : Psychiatrist
- Vocation : Medical : Physician
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction (Medical)
