Jean Garrabé passed away on 13 September 2020. Jean wore his impressive clinical, historical and literary erudition with modesty. He was a hard-working member of the Editorial Board of History of Psychiatry, and his help and advice will be sorely missed by the Journal.
Among these, the Manuel, translated as Tratado de Psiquiatría was, in a large part of Latin America, the basic text for training generations of psychiatrists and psychologists. When I started my training in psychiatry in 1961, motivated by the central, key distinction drawn by Henri Ey between acute and chronic mental pathology, I became progressively interested in the rest of his work. Encouraged by Dr Ofelia Bachini who had met Ey when working as a 'stagiaire' at the Asile de Bonneval (a psychiatric hospital which is now named after Ey), I translated some articles for our staff members at Hospital Psiquiátrico Vilardebó (Montevideo). This was the informal beginning of the translation process. After the years of dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-84), and when I was teaching in the department of psychiatry, in 1986 I organized a seminar for a group of physician residents on the topic 'Acute psychoses: historical development of its concept'. The central text was the third volume of Études Psychiatriques (1st edn, 1954). This was when the idea arose to translate the Études for younger colleagues, who wanted to read the work but found it very difficult in the original French. The first step in this project was taken by a Brazilian member of the group who had parts of the third volume translated into Portuguese, and then he translated them into Spanish. As this valiant attempt at 'double translation' led to a very questionable text, I felt the need to correct it. In my view, this partial translation of the Études was the germ of the later work, which I was unable to carry out at the time because of my clinical and teaching commitments. With the group of physician residents who had begun to read Ey's work with so much determination, we created the 608345H PY0010.
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