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MOREL, Bénédict Augustin (1809 – 1873)

1809 – 1873

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1857 CE

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Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l’espèce humaine. 1 vol. and atlas.

The main support for the theory of mental illness as regression which dominated psychiatric practice for several decades. Morel described and illustrated the nature, causes, and signs of human degeneration. He focused…