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Henri Laborit (21 November 1914 – 18 May 1995) was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatrists to test it on a patient, resulting in great success.
Henri Laborit was one of the founders of modern neuropsychopharmacology, having discovered, or participated in, the discovery of chlorpromazine, gamma-OH, clomethiazole, and minaprine. He also put forward a theory regarding the necessity of counteracting the negative consequences of defense mechanisms during anesthesia or behavioral inhibition.
- Edward Kunz
- 10.31887/DCNS.2014.16.1/ekunz
- 2014
- 2014/03
Henri Laborit, né le 21 novembre 1914 à Hanoï, alors en Indochine française, et mort le 18 mai 1995 à Paris, est un médecin chirurgien et neurobiologiste . Il introduit en 1951 l'utilisation des neuroleptiques, révolutionnant la psychiatrie, et celle du GHB en 1960, révolutionnant l' anesthésie.
In 1949, Henri-Marie Laborit, a French army surgeon, used promethazine, a phenothiazine derivative, along with barbiturates, to prevent surgical shock and called this “lytic cocktail.” He also noticed that the patients who were extremely anxious were made calm, relaxed and indifferent to the surroundings.
- Chaitra T Ramachandraiah, Narayana Subramaniam, Manuel Tancer
- 2009
Mar 8, 2020 · Stationed there was a surgeon named Henri Laborit (1914-1995), born in French Indochina as the son of a colonial physician, and a combat veteran who had been aboard the destroyer Siroco at the...
Oct 29, 2014 · This essay explores the work of Henri Laborit, the French cyberneticist renowned for his injection of cybernetic theory into urban cultural analysis.
This essay explores the work of Henri Laborit, the French cyberneticist renowned for his injection of cybernetic theory into urban cultural analysis. Laborit went beyond a
