Article ID: CBB000931842

Gilbert Ballet (1853--1916): La psychiatrie raisonnable (2007)

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Gilbert Ballet (1853-1916) was born into a medical family in the French province of Limousin. He completed a brilliant career in Paris hospitals: Resident (1875), Assistant to Professor Charcot of Salpêtrière Hospital (1882), Consultant (1884), Head of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry (1890), and member of the Franch Academy of Medicine (1812). He had been teaching in the "Brain and mental diseases" course since 1891. In 1909, he held the chair of history of medicine. In 1911, he was Professor of mental diseases. He then advocated that nervous system disorders constituted a single thematic domain with two branches, organic neurology and psychiatry. He wrote a famous report on the forensic medicine assessment of criminal responsibility. His motto was "Let's use psychology as we can, not forgetting that we are physicians".

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Authors & Contributors
Klee, Astrid
Le Bras, Anatole
Vincenti, Denise
Heckers, Stephan
Kendler, Kenneth S
Lacroix, Agnès
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Neurosciences
Psychology
Biographies
Psychopathology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
France
Italy
Strasbourg (France)
Germany
Ottoman Empire
Brazil
Institutions
Warwick County Lunatic Asylum
Reichsuniversität Strassburg
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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