Constance Pascal | |
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Born | |
Died | 21 December 1937 Neuilly-sur-Marne, France | (aged 60)
Nationality | Romanian |
Occupation(s) | psychiatrist, author |
Constance Pascal (August 22, 1877 – December 21, 1937) was a Romanian-born psychiatrist who practised in France and became the first woman psychiatrist and the first women head doctor of a psychiatric hospital in France.[1][2][3] Best known for her work on dementia praecox, she researched the social as well as the biological causes of mental illness. Pascal founded one of the first ‘medical-pedagogic’ institutes in France. Her monograph, Chagrins d'amour et psychoses (1935), reflected her wide cultural interests.