Henri Claude

Henri Charles Jules Claude, Charles Jules Henri sometimes Claude ( born March 31, 1869 in Paris, † 1945, Paris) was a French psychiatrist and neurologist and from 1922-1939 served as a director at the Psychiatric Clinic of St. Anne in Paris.

Life

Claude was a student of Fulgence Raymond (1844-1910) at the historic Hôpital de la Salpêtrière. Claude became the representative of the third generation of French dynamic psychiatry since its founder Jean -Martin Charcot ( 1825-1893 ), as Raymond himself was a pupil of Charcot. Claude René Laforgue commissioned to establish a psychoanalytic clinic of his department. There among others were also Adrian Borel, Angélo Hesnard and Eugénie Sokolnicka active. As medical director, he demanded apparent that Eugénie Sokolnicka was replaced by her students René Laforgue, who had himself subjected to analysis with her. This reasoned Claude probably the fact that he only wished doctors to his department.

Services

Henri Claude plays a key role in the spread of psychoanalysis in France, since the founding of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris ( SPP) in 1926, personally worked with Freud, was occupied by people who worked at the Hospital of St. Anne. Claude looked at himself as a representative of the " Cartesian spirit" of psychoanalysis, which probably means that he knew how to take into account the traditions of French psychiatry. He was open to the representations of Adolf bribe, than this the concept of Defence Neuro-Psychoses, psychoneuroses later lectured at the Congress of the Société de Neurologie on July 4, 1907. Henri Ey has taken the form of Psychodynamismus by his teacher Claude. Claude dealt with schizophrenia and symptom saw as the " dissociation " to. This dissociation can be understood as a fraction of the mental unit, which can be seen, inter alia, in the interaction of affective, intellectual and psychomotor functions. This concept of schizophrenia clearly shows that Claude was connected to the neurophysiological point of view of mental illness as it is the tradition of the school of Montpellier own.

The name Claude is in the medical literature known as the Claude- Loyez syndrome, also referred to simply as Claude 's syndrome, which is observed in limited lesions of the red nucleus in the midbrain and with paralysis ( of the oculomotor nerve and hemiparesis ) and tremor accompanied.

Further, the paralysis syndrome Schwurhand is named as an expression of a paralysis of the median nerve, especially in France as " Claude 's sign " ( Signe de Claude ).

The reflex increase in 1910 by Claude described as " hyperkinesis " in spastic paralyzed limbs in France is also referred to as " Claude 's sign " ( Signe de Claude ) and is considered a prognostically favorable sign, cf spastic paralysis.

Works

• La méthode psychanalytique et la doctrine freudienne.
• Démence précoce et schizophrenia.