Jacques Postel
{{short description|French academic and psychiatrist (1927–2022)}}
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Psychiatrist
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Faculté des lettres de Paris
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Jacques Postel (1 January 1927 – 25 November 2022) was a French academic and psychiatrist. He was editor of the magazine {{ill|L'Évolution psychiatrique|fr}} from 1984 to 1991.{{cite web|url=https://levolutionpsychiatrique.fr/la-societe/presentation/|title=Présentation|work=L'Évolution psychiatrique|date=14 September 2018 |language=French}}
Biography
Postel was born on 1 January 1927.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hTNrAAAAMAAJ&q=Jacques+Postel+1927 | title=International Who's who in Medicine | date=1987 | publisher=International Biographical Centre | isbn=9780900332869 }} He earned a doctorate from the {{ill|University of Lyon (historic)|fr|Université de Lyon (Histoire)|lt=University of Lyon}} in 1955.{{cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32541457n.public|title=L'Expression électrique des accidents vasculaires cérébraux d'origine traumatique|work=Bibliothèque nationale de France|date=1955 |language=French}} After his degree, he began working as a neuropsychiatrist at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in Paris.{{cite book |last1=Blondel|first1=Christine|last2=Gourlet|first2=Valérie|date=1987|title=Guide de l'histoire des sciences et des techniques en France|trans-title= |url= |language=French|location=Paris|publisher=Cité des sciences et de l'industrie|isbn=}} He also worked as a professor of clinical psychopathology at Paris Diderot University. In 1983, he published Nouvelle Histoire de la psychiatrie alongside Claude Quétel.
Jacques Postel died on 25 November 2022, at the age of 95.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=25 November 2022|title=Jacques Postel 1927 – 2022|trans-title= |url=https://levolutionpsychiatrique.fr/2022/11/25/jacques-postel-1927-2022/|language=French|work=L'Évolution psychiatrique|location= |access-date=28 November 2022}}
Publications
- Contribution à l'étude des troubles de la reconnaissance de l'image spéculaire de soi chez les personnes âgées : l'épreuve spéculaire dans les démences tardives (1967)
- L'évolution psychique de l'enfant : intelligence, affectivité, langage (1970)
- Genèse de la psychiatrie : les premiers écrits psychiatriques de Philippe Pinel (1981)
- La Vie et l’œuvre psychiatrique de Frantz Fanon (2007)
- Éléments pour une histoire de la psychiatrie occidentale (2007){{cite web|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-psychotherapies-2008-1-page-65.htm|title=Analyses de livres|work=Cairn.info|language=French}}
- Trois destins de femmes en asile psychiatrique : Anne-Marie, Madeleine, Suzanne (2014)
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