Henri Legrand du Saulle

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Henri Legrand du Saulle (April 16, 1830 - May 6, 1886) was a French psychiatrist who was a native of Dijon. In 1856 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Paris, and was an assistant to Bénédict Morel (1809-1873) at Saint-Yon, and practiced psychiatry under Louis-Florentin Calmeil (1798-1895) at the Charenton Asylum. He also worked at Charles Lasègue's psychiatric emergency ward at the Prefecture of Police. Later he was associated with research done at the Bicêtre (1867) and Salpétrière Hospitals.

Henri du Saulle is remembered for his studies on personality disorders, particularly pioneer work involving phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders. He also did extensive work in forensic psychiatry, and was concerned with its legal implications as it applied to mental disease.

[edit] Selected writings

• La folie devant les tribunaux (1864)
• Prisbelönt av Institutet, Pronostic et traitement d’épilepsie (1869)
• Le délire des persécutions (1871)
• La folie héréditaire (1873)
• Traité de médecine legale, de jurisprudence médicale et de toxicologie (1874)
• La folie du doute avec délire du toucher (1875)
• Étude médico-légale sur les épileptiques (1877)
• Étude clinique sur la peur des espaces (1878)
• Étude médico-légale sur l’interdiction des aliénés (1880)
• Les hystériques (1882)

[edit] References

• Biography of Henri Du Saulle, Translated from French by Google