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Place of Birth: Bléré, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Paul Sollier
- Paul Auguste Sollier (31 August 1861 – 8 June 1933) was a French doctor and psychologist. Sollier was born in Bléré, Indre-et-Loire.
- While largely overlooked, Paul Sollier's writings are now being re-discovered, showing an extraordinarily modern conceptual thinking.
- Paul Sollier (1861-1933) at the time was considered the most gifted pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot, together with Joseph Babinski.
- Because of his interest in psychology, unique at the time for a neurologist, but also his opposition to the leading figure in psychiatry Pierre Janet, Sollier was never well accepted by his contemporary neurologists and psychiatrists.
- He could not follow an academic career and was never elected to the Académie de Médecine, despite several applications.
- His scientific and clinical interests encompassed classical neurological syndromes, but also hysteria, memory, emotions, and mental retardation, where he was the precursor of the development of the intellectual ratio.
- Already in the 1890s, he developed cognitive-behavioral therapies, which he applied to his most famous patient Marcel Proust.
- Proust largely inspired himself from Sollier's The Problem of Memory (1900) for his emphasis on involuntary memory in his novel In Search of Lost Time.
- Sollier can be considered as one of the first neuropsychologists, and deserves the present renewed interest in his work.
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