Édouard Toulouse

Édouard Toulouse (10 December 1865 in Marseille – 19 January 1947 in Paris) was a French psychiatrist, journalist, and director of the literary magazine Demain.

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Career

As a young man, Toulouse worked for a number of newspapers in Marseille as a drama critic.

He later headed the Clinic for Mental Illness at the Paris Faculty.^[1]^:14 Toulouse believed artistic creativity had an important role to play in psychological treatment. He considered himself a novelist, 'and said that he had come to science through literary activity'^[1]^:14 In 1896 he conducted a survey of men of exceptional genius where he profiled writer Émile Zola and French luminaries to identify shared, explainable characteristics. Following this project, Toulouse was named the director of a modern clinic in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif in 1898.^[2]

In 1912 he established the fortnightly literary journal Demain, which covered a wide array of topics.^[2] A number of important figures worked on the journal, including Antonin Artaud and Jean Paulhan.^[2]

At the beginning of World War I, Toulouse conducted a survey of asylum care in France, and looked to "transform asylums of confinement into hospitals of mental health care."^[2]

He founded the League of Hygiene and Mental Prophylaxis in December 1920^[1]^:14

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Édouard Toulouse

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