Henri Ey: Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst

Henri Ey created the approach to psychiatry known as organodynamics. He intended this approach to be a synthesis of organicism and psychoanalytic dynamics. In other words, it considers that mental illnesses are due to both biological and psychic factors. Those who knew Ey said he was a very warm man with excellent manners. He loved good food, cigars, and bullfighting. Furthermore, he’s as important in the field of French psychiatry as Jacques Lacan is in the field of psychoanalysis. “The use of neuroleptics never allows, therefore, to set aside the psychotherapeutic relationship that should accompany all biological therapeutics in psychiatry.”…