Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault

Gaëtan Georges Gatian de Clérambault is a Psychiatre, Ethnographe and Photographe French, born on July 2nd, 1852 in Bourges and deceased by suicide on November 17th, 1934 with Malakoff.

Biography

Entered as a house physician with the special infirmary of the Police headquarter of Paris in March 1902, it is named there doctor associates in January 1905 then doctor in March 1913 and becomes head doctor in March 1920.

In this context, with the service of emergency admission of the lunatics, he sees quantity of people (approximately 2000 per annum) obviously making state of mental disorders and which disturb the law and order. It in particular observed many cases of erotomania (Psychose characterized by a passion Délire also called syndrome of Clérambault ), pathology which it described in détail.
It also defined the mental Automatisme of which it made a remarkable description and it was in favor of a Théorie mecanicist of the mental diseases. He also studied the intoxications by the alcohol, the ether and the Chloral.

Mobilized from August 3rd, 1914 to January 31st, 1919, it was decorated with the cross of the Légion of Honor and the Military Cross with palm.

It was interested much in draperies and taught draped with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools of Paris. It was also impassioned of Photographie. One preserves of him a great quantity of photographs which it had taken in Morocco between the years 1927 and 1920 and of which some are with the Musée of the Man.

Its death was dramatic: it committed suicide by firearm in front of its mirror realizing that it had become blind.

Work

Psychiatric work

Articles

The articles of Gaëtan Gatien de Clérambault, descriptions of case and observations clinical, are listed by chronological order of publication.

erotic Passion of the fabrics at the woman (1908) , Files of criminal anthropology of Legal medicine, T. XXIII, ED. Masson and Co, 1908.

erotic Passion of the fabrics at the woman (1910)] , Files of criminal anthropology of Legal medicine, T. XXV, ED. Masson and Co, 1910.

end of conspicuous (presentation of patient) a , Bulletin of the Clinical Company of Mental Medicine, December 1920.

be delirious Them passion. Erotomania, Claim, Jealousy (presentation of patient) , Bulletin of the Clinical Company of Mental Medicine, February 1921.

Pure Erotomania. Associated erotomania (presentation of patient) , Bulletin of the Clinical Company of Mental Medicine, July 1921.

pure Erotomania persisting since 37 years (presentation of patient) , Bulletin of the Clinical Company of Mental Medicine, June 1923.

Books

the mental Automatism . Republication: Hinderers to think in round, 1992, ISBN 9782908602159

the erotomania . Republication: Hinderers to think in round, 2002, ISBN 9782846710350

end of conspicuous a . Republication: Hinderers to think in round, 1997, ISBN 9782843240041

psychiatric Works . Republication: Frenzy, 1998, ISBN 9782906225077

erotic Passion of the fabrics at the woman . Republication: Hinderers to think in round, 2002, ISBN 9782846710367

Memories of an operated doctor of the cataract followed In deep photograph with Clérambault . Republication: Hinderers to think in round, 1992, ISBN 9782908602203

Photographic work

At the time of its stays to the Morocco in 1915 and 1917, Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault carried out a very great number of photographs of buckled women whom it gave to the Musée of the Man. Some were exposed to the Center Georges-Pompidou in 1990 and were published in 1997 in a collection with accompanying notes by Serge Tisseron.

In addition, 485 phototypes allotted to Clérambault - sights of cities, buildings and monuments French - are preserved in the Photographic archives of the Media library of the Inheritance.

Quotation

" De Clérambault was my only Master in the observation of the patients (...) " - Jacques Lacan.

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