Pierre Debray-Ritzen

Pierre Debray-Ritzen (born in with Paris the February 27th 1922 - died the July 7th 1993) was a Médecin and a writer French. Its true name was Pierre Debray, with which it associated the Flemish name of his mother for her combat of man of letters.

He is the father of the psychiatrist and writer Quentin Debray, and the uncle of the writer Régis Debray.

The doctor

Pierre Debray-Ritzen is in particular the pupil of Robert Laplane, François Lhermitte and Paul Castaigne.

In 1968, it takes an active part in the “group of the Thirteen”, a gathering of professors de Médecine who, in spite of the events of May 1968, do all so that the examinations of medicine can take place like usually. This group receives the support of Edgar Faure, then Minister for State education.

Of 1972 with 1988, it directs the service of Pédopsychiatrie to the Hôpital Necker Ill children of Paris.

In 1974, it obtains the Aggregation of Medicine and becomes professor with the Medical college of Paris.

In the line of Claude Bernard, to which it devoted a biography, it attempted to seek the physiological causes of certain psychological diseases of the child. Thus, being interested particularly in the Dyslexia, he affirmed: “The genetic factor is undeniable. ” Within this framework, it reproached the psychoanalysis unnecessarily for making feel guilty the parents.

As a partisan of the Experimental method, it is thus one of the first to criticize the Psychanalyse and Freud in the name of science in the Scholastic freudienne (1973).

“One knows how much is caught and in us a belief solidifies; how it is fattened by interpreting each new fact, by assimilating it, by making of him its own substance… Ainsi the false idea and done everything projects it its own light by plugging any other concept which could contradict it. A scholastic is consequently walks from there who brings the comfortable course of her logic and the practice of her vocabulary. Nothing can it stop, if not precisely this doubt required unceasingly by the experimental reasoning - with the direction bernardien - and which one appreciates, in fact, fundamental need. ” (in the Psychoanalysis this imposture , 1991)

This standpoint was worth in Pierre Debray-Ritzen of many animosities.

The art lover, the amateur of literature and the writer

The art lover

Pierre Debray-Ritzen was also an art lover and literature. He often quoted a sentence of Lawrence Durrell: “Each direction supports an art”.

Pierre Debray-Ritzen was corresponding Institut of France (Académie of the Art schools), where it gave conferences.

In 1980, with the journalist Jean Shoed, it founded the Prix Élie Faure, rewarding the best book for art of the year.

The amateur of literature

He did not distinguish, with personal capacity, his scientific research, intellectual and literary: “It is a question of fighting against imposture”, said it.

In the years 1960, it is at the origin of the “Group”. In its spirit, it is a question periodically of bringing together various people by their talent and their opinions, which can evoke with him the subjects which interest it. Took part in this “group” of many personalities: Pierre de Boisdeffre, Louis Pauwels, Herve Bazin, Jean-Louis Bory, Pierre Daix, Armand Lanoux, Michel Tournier, Félicien Marceau, Jose Cabanis.

It tested a great admiration for the writer Arthur Koestler, old agent of the Komintern, which denounced the totalitarian character of Communism in the Zero and Infinite the and which devoted second half of its life to the epistemological reflection. He regarded it as his Master and devoted to him a Cahier of Herne.

It regularly animated an emission with Radio Courtesy. This emission was entitled: " Art littéraire". It expressed there its admiration for the literatures English (Charles Dickens) and Russian, in particular for Tchekhov, which was doctor like him, but also for Gogol, Tolstoï and Dostoïevski. It also contributed to make known in France the Serb writer Dobritsa Tchossitch.

The writer

Pierre Debray-Ritzen was itself writer. He, inter alia, wrote a psychology of the literature, the Veins Être , like two volumes of memories, the wear of the heart and To the cord , in which he evokes his youth, its studies of medicine, its engagements in favor of the children. It announced there of its literary and artistic tastes and its philosophy of the life. Fought by those which it called “the suckers and the simpletons”, it expresses there also its attachment with his friends, the “francs companions”.

In the Wear of the heart , it reproduces an extract of its Newspaper of 1975: “To gather its force to still create. More not to see but people of quality and, still, quality which one loves, if not to abstain from. Loneliness like a fast, rather than to swallow ragougnasse. Day after day an insane ambition to include/understand and create to me désencombre ambition. ”

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