Henri EY - Tapuscrits du Psychiatre et Neurol... Lot n° 1041

Corpus of original typescripts by one of the masters of French psychiatry on: delirium, the outline of a course on epilepsy and pathological suicide. Henry Ey is the master of French psychiatry whose posterity has recognized his organodynamic conception of mental illness. His great classical treatises were preceded by the works of Bonneval, for whom he was the chief medecine of the asylum. The corpus consists of 3 typescripts. T1 : Les délires, 1951, In-4 paginated from 46 to 63, very complete of the coloured scheme. Henri EY makes it possible to rediscover Cotard and the leaders of the classical school (cf. Foville). He renews the conception of delirium by writing that clinical studies in their invasive methodology have caused the deep meaning of delirium to be lost. "Such is delirium as it lies in the slightly mouldy pages of the characteristic textbooks of that time. It has been reduced to dust to make it more easily available to mechanistic and atomistic theories. It is now so empty that it tends to disappear from the preoccupations of psychiatrists. The latter, when they do not reduce it to a few inert squelches, consider it as a "superfluous ornament", as an uninteresting "content", as an artifact, as a baroque blister, as a contingency which can be so dispensed with that certain psychiatric treatises in the course of the century neglect to talk about it and that we commonly hear some "psychiatrists" say that delirium does not interest them. This inversion of values and this strange disdain for what constitutes the essence of madness is all the more difficult to explain because ...". T2: Note intended to provide an outline and to specify the way in which observations should be collected for a study of epilepsy, especially from a psychiatric perspective in a group of inpatient epiletics, sd (ca. 1951), in-4 paginated from 1 to 10. Henri EY proposes an inventory of a clinical modus operandi for the understanding of the subj