In the 19th century in France, psychiatric knowledge was first transmitted outside the Faculty in lessons given in hospitals by psychiatrists. To a certain extent, Henry Ey's teaching (1900-1977) at the Saint-Anne hospital has extended this tradition into the 20th century. Nevertheless, clinical study of mental illness, the basis of this teaching, was always accompanied by reflection on the
... [Show full abstract] theory, shared with his students. It was thus in drawing up his theoretical work that this expert sought to transmit clinical psychiatry.