Jean Delay (doctor)

See also: Jean Delay, Delay

Jean Delay is a Psychiatre and writer French (Bayonne, November 14th 1907 - Paris, May 29th 1987).

Biography

Wire of Maurice Delay, surgeon and Mayor of Bayonne, Jean Delay studies the Médecine with Paris. Intern receipt to 20 years and, marked by the teaching of Pierre Janet and Georges Dumas, it is directed towards psychiatry. It specializes in Neurologie with the Salpêtrière. It devotes its thesis doctorate to the Astéréognosie S in 1935. He undertakes then studies of Philosophie to the Sorbonne and supports in 1942 a thesis of letters on the Maladie S of the memory.

He receives finally a formation in clinical Psychiatrie near H. Ey at the hospital Holy-Anne. It is in this establishment that it becomes titular pulpit of the private clinic of the mental diseases in 1946. It continues there many clinical studies and psychopharmacological, in particular on the Chlorpromazine, leader of the futures Neuroleptique S, of which it studies the effects Sédatif S on the states of agitation as of 1952 with J. Mr. Harl and P. Deniker. Regarding this Drug initially as “ganglio-plégique” at the therapeutic Days of Paris, it makes of it then a Psychotrope with central action, which it will initially call “Neuroplégique”, then finally “Neuroleptique”.

Literary works

Shining writer, it is elected with the French Academy in 1959 and leaves remarkable biographical studies on the Jeunesse of André Gide (1956-1957) and on his maternal ancestors in four volumes of Before-Memory (1979-1986). Its test Psychiatry and psychology of Immoraliste was worth the Grand Prix of criticism to him.

Entourage

Jean Delay is the father of Florence Delay, the French Academy, and Claude Delay, novelist and psychoanalyst.

In 1957, it worked out with its assistant P. Deniker a classification of the Drogue S which will be validated by the world congress of psychiatry in 1961. This classification distinguishes the substances Psychotrope S according to their activity on the central Nervous system. ( See detailed article Classification of psychotropic the )

Distinctions

Bibliographical elements

  • Dissolutions of the memory , Foreword of Pierre Janet, 1942, PUF

External bonds

  • Page on the site of the French Academy
  • praise pronounced with the French Academy by its successor, Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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