Dr Charles Odier - a French-speaking Swiss Doctor who had taken
part in the psychanalysis in France- was the first to realise the
worldwide importance of Mrs Sechehaye's works.
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As soon as 1947, he indeed wrote the
foreword of the test to her on her method
of symbolic realisation with a non dissimulated passion. Three years later, in 1950, and whereas the University Presses of France are still at their beginnings, it is the publication of the Autobiography of a schizophrenic girl which will definitively carry Mrs. Sechehaye's work to the posterity. Today, whereas fifty years have passed, nothing of what had prevailed with the inspiration of this Swiss psychologist in the control of the treatment of her patient was contradicted. One does not count any more the number of reéditions in latin languages anymore. One does not count any more the number of translations and even less the number of references carried out by the authors who succeeded to her anymore. Although we didn't make a systematic approach to gather the still long-lived traces of this influence (difficult task not to say impossible), the many quotations which we succeeded in gathering testify that the knowledge of Renee's case was transmitted beyond the borders. |
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The fact that it is divided by all those which of all horizons
had to approach the vast sector of the social sciences (psychiatrists, psychologists, psychoanalists, psychiatric male nurses,
educationalists) demonstrates it belongs from now on, to the collective memory. |
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