Félix Voisin (19 November 1794 – 23 November 1872) was a French psychiatrist born in Le Mans.
He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1819 he earned his doctorate. He was a disciple of Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840), and a colleague of Jean-Pierre Falret (1794–1870), with whom he founded a private mental institution at Vanves in 1822. Later he provided services for mentally disabled people at a hospice on the rue de Sèvres, relocating to the Bicêtre Hospital in 1840, where he worked with the mentally impaired until his retirement in 1865. One of Voison's better known assistants was educator Édouard Séguin (1812–1880).
In his 1851 treatise Analyse de l'entendement humain (Analysis of Human Understanding), Voisin described three major facets of human functionality, which he referred to as moral, intellect and animal factions. These classifications predated, and in a general sense are a parallel to the Freudian concepts of superego, ego and id.
Selected writingsedit
1826 – Des causes morales et physiques des maladies mentales
1839 – De l'Homme animal
1847 – Du traitement intelligent de la folie et application de quelques uns de ses principes à la reforme des criminels
1851 – Analyse de l'entendement humain
Referencesedit
Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness Theodore Milton
Psychiatrie.histoire (translated biography)
Inventing the Feeble Mind by James W. Trent, James W. Trent Jr.
May 02, 2024
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