Louis René Villermé

His mother was a close relative of General Lecourbe; his father, René Jean Chrysostome Villermé, Attorney at the Grand Châtelet de Paris had give up to his Office and withdrew to Lardy (Essonne) where he was born. the young René was baptized at Paris in the Church of Saint-Séverin, to hide the fact that he was a child born out of wedlock; He spent all ...

Silvio Fanti

Silvio Fanti (born September 22, 1919 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and died on June 26, 1997 in Paris) is a psychiatrist and micropsychanalyste, of Italian nationality. He is the founder of the micropsychanalyse. Biography Fanti passes his latin-Greek BA in French language, to the collège St Michel in Fribourg, then mature latin-science in the German language, ...

David Cooper

He was born in 1931 in Capetown where he completed medical studies and then moved to London where he led the experimental unit for schizophrenics called “Pavilion 21″ from 1962 to 1966. With his colleagues, he focussed primarily to develop an Existentialist Psychiatry in Britain challenging project of which is illustrated by the term of anti-psychiatry. ...

Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

“Madame Curie” has influenced the history of physics and chemistry, but also the applied natural sciences and medicine as probably no other woman before her. Marie Curie was many people everywhere through the unit of radioactivity, which for many years bore their name (Curie unit), and the “Curie therapy”, although this type of radiation therapy ...

Arvid Carlsson

Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel have one thing in common: did fundamental work in the field of brain research – in particular to the signalling pathway in the brain – and have the Nobel Prize received for this together in the year for Physiology or Medicine (the official name of the award). Their research have helped, inter alia, to get ...

Franck Chaumon

Franck Chaumon is particularly interested in reports of Psychiatry and of justice. It is one of hosts of the association practices of the madness, and Director of the eponymous collection in L’Harmattan. He is one of the initiators of the petition “for psychoanalysis” in response to the amendment Accoyer. Publications Psychiatry and justice, La Documentation ...

Daniel Paul Schreber

Daniel Paul Schreber, born on July 25, 1842 in Leipzig and died on April 14, 1911, was a magistrate. It is famous for its psychotic delusions, that it tells in an autobiographical book: “Memoirs of a névropathe”. Biography Son of Moritz Schreber, a renowned doctor, Daniel Paul is the third in a sibling of five children. With success, he began a career ...

Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz (born March 26, 1911 in Leipzig, died April 20, 2003) was a famous German biophysicist for his research in biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1969. Biography (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Born in Leipzig in Germany, ...

John and Lorena Bobbitt

John Wayne Bobbitt (born March 23, 1967 in Buffalo New York) and Lorena Leonor Gallo of Bobbitt (born in 1970 in Bucay, Ecuador) are a U.S. couple (married June 18, 1989) who became known after a fact in 1993 when Lorena cut a part of the penis of her husband with a kitchen knife. The incident The night of June 23, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt cut the penis of her ...

Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne

Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, known as Duchenne de Boulogne (17 September 1806 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – September 15, 1875 in Paris), is a French neurologist doctor. It is one of the great clinicians of the 19th century and the founder of Neurology. Biography (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); He completed his secondary studies ...