Henri Ey Explained

Henri Marie Jean Louis Ey (in French ɛ/; 10 August 1900, Banyuls-dels-Aspres – 8 November 1977, Banyuls-dels-Aspres) was a French neurologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher.

Biography

Ey was born on 10 August 1900 in Banyuls-dels-Aspres, Pyrénées-Orientales, and died there on 9 November 1977.

After the second world war Ey renewed the group L'Evolution Psychiatrique with Eugène Minkowski.

Psychiatric theory

Ey developed an "organodynamic psychology" and a theory of the structure of states of consciousness, in which he developed ideas of Pierre Janet and John Hughlings Jackson.[1]

It was under the title of Organodynamic Psychology that Ey developed a unifying psychology which included both organic (neurological, genetic, etc.) and psychodynamic factors.

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Notes and References

  1. Berrios GE (1977) Henri Ey, Jackson et les Idées Obsédantes. L'Evolution Psychiatrique 62: 685–699.