Abstract
This paper examines issues of practice in post-war French child psychiatry through the prism of patient records. At the center of the paper is the case of a young girl who, from her early childhood, was placed in a children’s home run by the Jewish social service agency, Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE). Between twelve and fifteen years of age, the girl was hospitalized three separate times in the psychiatric service of Dr Georges Heuyer and his successor, Léon Michaux at La Salpêtrière. Comparing the extensive OSE and La Salpêtrière files on the young girl allows us to pinpoint the ways in which the profile of the treating institution shapes the construction of the patient record. Reading the two sets of files in tandem reveals some of the structural obstacles to the cooperation of French institutions for child psychiatry.
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