Jean-Baptiste-Maximien Parchappe de Vinay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Épernay, Grand Est, France
About Jean-Baptiste-Maximien Parchappe de Vinay
- Jean-Baptiste-Maximien Parchappe de Vinay (October 21, 1800 – March 12, 1866) was a French psychiatrist who was a native of Épernay, Marne. Parchappe de Vinay studied in medicine in Rouen and Paris, earning his medical doctorate in 1827.
- From 1835 to 1848 he practiced psychiatry at the Maison de Saint-Yon in Rouen.
- In 1848, he was appointed inspector-general of French mental asylums and sanitation services of prisons. With Guillaume Ferrus (1784–1861) and Jacques-Étienne Belhomme (1800–1880), he was a prominent figure in 19th-century French psychiatry in regards to physicians who believed that the cause of most mental illnesses could be localized anatomically.
- He performed extensive research involving general paralysis of the insane, and while at Saint-Yon he published a pioneer study of psychiatric statistics titled Recherches statistiques sur les causes de l'alienation mentale.
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