Henri Baruk
Henri Baruk · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French psychiatrist and pioneer of moral psychiatry
1897, Saint-Avé, France — 1999, Paris, France
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Baruk was a French psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist who championed a humane, ethically grounded 'moral psychiatry' and studied experimental catatonia. From a French Jewish family of psychiatrists (his father Jacques Baruk directed an asylum), he drew explicitly on Hebrew ethical tradition, promoting the biblical concept of tsedek (justice) as a foundation for treating the mentally ill with dignity. He headed the Charenton asylum and wrote prolifically on psychiatry and Jewish thought.
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French psychiatrist and pioneer of moral psychiatry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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