Robert Desoille, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Desoille

psychotherapist

Date of Birth: 29-May-1890

Place of Birth: Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1966

Profession: electrical engineer, psychotherapist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Robert Desoille (May 29, 1890 - October 10, 1966) was a French psychotherapist.
A graduate of the Sorbonne and École centrale de Lille, he worked at EDF and he became known for his studies on waking dreams. Desoille was born in Besançon into a family of military officers and began a scientific education in engineering that he would never complete after being mobilized in World War I.
After his 1923 meeting with Colonel Eugène Caslant, who introduced him to an experimental mental imaging technique, he developed his method of the "directed waking dream" (rêve eveillé dirigé, or RED), explicating it in seven books.