Georges Heuyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georges Heuyer

French psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1884

Place of Birth: Pacy-sur-Eure, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 23-Oct-1977

Profession: psychiatrist, university teacher, child psychiatrist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Georges Heuyer (30 January 1884 in Pacy-sur-Eure – 23 October 1977 in Paris) was the physician who first established child psychiatry in France in 1949. He was the son of Louis Heuyer (1847–1930), a military medical officer. Although not a psychoanalyst himself, he introduced the practice of psychoanalysis in a hospital environment, first with the Freudian analyst Eugénie Sokolnicka (whom he met thanks to the novelist Paul Bourget), then with Sophie Morgenstern to whom he entrusted a psychoanalysis laboratory.
Heuyer wrote extensively on child psychiatry (ten books and more than one hundred publications).