Jean Oury is a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst born in March 1924. He is the founder and director of the psychiatric

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

 hospital La Borde clinic at Cour-Cheverny, France

France

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. He has been member of the Freudian School of Paris, founded by Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...

 from inception until the dissolution of this psychoanalytical movement. Along with François Tosquelles

François Tosquelles

François Tosquelles was a Catalan psychiatrist. He is credited as one of the creators of Institutional Psychotherapy, an influential movement in the second half of the 20th century....

 and Lucien Bonnafe he was instrumental in the creation of institutional psychotherapy whose therapeutic practices influenced Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...

, Félix Guattari

Félix Guattari

Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy...

, and the later Antipsychiatry movements of the 1960s.

External links

• The web site of the "Clinique de la Borde"
• The French Wikipedia Article for Jean Oury