Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1602

ALEXANDRE JACQUES FRANCOIS BRIERRE DE BOISMONT (1798-1881) Des hallucinations. Germer Baillière; New York: Hipp. Baillière brothers 1862 3rd ed. xiv, 719 pp. 21.3 cm.

Brierre de Boismont, one of the leading members of Esquirol's (see No. 1268) circle, completed his medical degree at Paris in 1825. A member of the Paris medical faculty, Brierre de Boismont published this first psychiatric survey of hallucinations at Paris in 1845. The third edition benefited from many additional notes and alterations Brierre de Boismont made to the text. He considered hallucinations to be one of the most important aspects of man's psychological history. In the work he discussed the theories that had been developed to explain the occurrence of hallucinations, divided them into ten groups based on whether they occurred alone or together with various mental or organic diseases, and presented a wide variety of clinical cases to illustrate his points.

See Related Record(s): 1268

Cited references: Waller 1454