Les fous, les insensés, les maniaques let les frénétiques ne seraient-ils que des somnabules désordonnés

Paris: Dentu, 1812. Modern boards, front board detached; internally fresh. Bookplate of Clements C. Fry (1892-1955), chief psychiatrist at the Yale University department of health and a Yale professor and lecturer for 30 years. First edition, a case study of the author’s magnetic treatment of 12-year-old Alexandre Hébert, a boy who suffered from fits of rage. Chastenet de Puységur here posits that most mental illness stems from disordered sleep and champions a close relationship between the clinician and the patient, a novel approach for the time. “Although little known, Chastenet de Puységur’s writings have an extraordinary significance for the history of modern psychology” (Hook).

Chastenet de Puysegur (1751-1825) was French military commander and student of Mesmer.

OCLC records 6 copies in the U.S. (Cal. State-Long Beach, Yale, Wood Lib., Clendening, NLM, Texas); Caillet 2270; Crabtree 240, 241, 245; Dureau 83; Norman M62.