Édouard Toulouse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Édouard Toulouse
- Édouard Toulouse (1865 - 1947) was a French psychiatrist, journalist, and director of the literary magazine Demain.
- He was born in Marseille on 10 December 1865 and died in Paris 19 January, 1947. At the beginning of World War I, Toulouse conducted a survey of asylum care in France, and looked to 'trasform asylums of confinement into hospitals of mentail health care.'In 1896 he conducted a survey of men of exceptional genius where he profiled writer Émile Zola and French luminaries to identify shared, explainable characteristics.
- Folliowing this project, Toulouse was named the director of a modern clinic in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif.Toulouse believed artistic creativity had an important role to play in psychological treatment.
- In 1912 he established the fortnightly literary journal Demain, which covered a wide array of topics.
- A number of important figures worked on the journal, including Antonin Artaud and Jean Paulhan.
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