Paul Sérieux (; 1864–1947) was a French

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...

. Paul Sérieux was born in

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on 4 July 1864. His family relocated to Paris when he was a child and he studied medicine in Paris, defending his thesis in 1888. He practiced medicine in several French hospitals and asylums during his career, including the Asylum of Ville-Evrard and the Sainte-Anne hospital. He also worked as a physician at the Asylum of Marsens in Switzerland. Sérieux is best known for research of

psychoses In psychopathology, psychosis is a condition in which a person is unable to distinguish, in their experience of life, between what is and is not real. Examples of psychotic symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized or incoher ...

and

delusion A delusion is a fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other m ...

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 variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

, 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

Emil Kraepelin Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (; ; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric ...

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

Works by Paul Sérieux

*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.

Works on Paul Sérieux

References

* ''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