title: Constance Pascal's Chagrins d'amour et psychoses (1935): a French psychiatrist's views on psychoanalysis.
abstract: In 1935 Constance Pascal (1877-1937), France's first woman psychiatrist, published Chagrins d'amour et psychoses (The Sorrows of Love and Psychosis). My analysis of her monograph will consider: her major article leading up to Chagrins; Pascal's debts to her predecessors, particularly Morel and Kretschmer; her relationship to the French psychoanalytic movement; her co-option of psychoanalysis as a tool in her own therapeutic work with patients in the state psychiatric system; and her social/cultural interpretations of her woman patients. The literary and philosophic aspects of her work are emphasized as well as her contribution to French psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Wolfson College Cambridge fmgordon@btinternet.com.
authors.forename: Felicia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gordon
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000266:history; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: French psychiatry; love; madness; psychoanalysis