Édouard Toulouse
Édouard Toulouse was a French psychiatrist, journalist, and director of the literary magazine Demain. He was born in Marseille on 10 December 1865 and died in Paris 19 January, 1947.
At the beginning of World War I, Toulouse conducted a survey of asylum care in France, and looked to 'trasform asylums of confinement into hospitals of mentail health care.'
In 1896 he conducted a survey of men of exceptional genius where he profiled writer Émile Zola and French luminaries to identify shared, explainable characteristics. Folliowing this project, Toulouse was named the director of a modern clinic in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif.
Toulouse believed artistic creativity had an important role to play in psychological treatment. In 1912 he established the fortnightly literary journal Demain, which covered a wide array of topics. A number of important figures worked on the journal, including Antonin Artaud and Jean Paulhan.
