In the history of medicine, Françoise Dolto is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Françoise Dolto as French pediatrician & psychoanalyst (1908–1988).
Françoise Dolto was born at 16th arrondissement of Paris in 1908. Her recorded nationality is France. She trained at Paris Medical Faculty.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The recorded fields of work are pediatrics and psychoanalysis.
Her principal contribution is The Jesus of psychoanalysis : a Freudian interpretation of the Gospel. The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Françoise Dolto died in 1988, aged 80. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Jesus of psychoanalysis : a Freudian interpretation of the Gospel
- Fields: pediatrics and psychoanalysis
