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Maurice Dide. (1873 – 1944)

Nacido en París. Estudió psiquiatría en la Salpêtrière, trabajó como director del hospital psiquiátrico de Braqueville, en Toulouse, desde 1909 a 1836.

Enseñó psicopatología en Toulouse, hasta su arresto por la gestapo durante la ocupación nazi en la segunda guerra mundial.

En 1902 describió el síndrome neurológico secundario a oclusión ambas arterias cerebrales posteriores: síndrome de Dide-Botcazo. (casos de ceguera cortical, asociado a amnesia)

His description of doctrinaire torturers (doctrinaires tortionnaires) in his book Les idéalistes passionnés (1), published in 1913, appears prophetic of Nazi genocide. During World War II, Maurice Dide, who had fought against racist and eugenist theses, committed himself to the fight against the German army of occupation and became the regional leader of the Resistance network, Combat.

He was arrested after being denounced by a Gestapo agent who had infiltrated the network and was sent to the concentration camp of Buchenwald. He died there some weeks later as the result of dog bites he sustained after helping an ill prisoner (2). (2) Mangin-Lazarus C: Maurice Dide: un psychiatre et la guerre. Toulouse, Erès, 1994.