Background
Oscar-Louis Forel was born in 1891 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Oscar-Louis Forel
Edit Profilenaturalist Photographer psychiatrist writer
Education
Forel studied literature at the Sorbonne in Paris (1911-12) and medicine under César Roux at Lausanne (1912- 18).
Career
Oscar-Louis Forel directed the psychiatric clinic La Métairie in Nyon from 1924 to 1929, then founded and directed the psychiatric clinic Les Rives de Prangins in Nyon (1929-46). From 1925 to 1953 he taught at the University of Geneva.
As a photographer, he made photos viewed extremely close up and framed to look like nonrepresentational painting. He calls his well-structured compositions "synchromies."
Achievements
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PUBLICATIONS Monographs: Synchromies, n.d. (du Temps: Paris; Edita: Lausanne), U.S. ed., Hidden Art in Nature, 1972; Etude sur le Rythme, 1920. Books: F. -C. de Laharpe, w/ Boethlink, 1969 (La Baconnière: Neuchâtel); L’Accord des sexes, 1953; Mémoires, ed., 1941 (La Baconnière: Neuchâtel); Manuel de Psychiatrie, 1940; La psychologie des névroses, 1925; Visions secrétes, w/David Douglas Duncan.
Membership
Forel was president of La Société Suisse de Psychiatric.
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Nationality
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Ethnicity
Career
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1924 - 1929
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1925 - 1953
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1929 - 1946