Édouard Toulouse

Édouard Toulouse (10 December 1865 in Marseille – 19 January 1947 in Paris) was a French psychiatrist, journalist, and director of the literary magazine Demain.

[1]:14 Toulouse believed artistic creativity had an important role to play in psychological treatment.

He considered himself a novelist, 'and said that he had come to science through literary activity'[1]:14 In 1896 he conducted a survey of men of exceptional genius where he profiled writer Émile Zola and French luminaries to identify shared, explainable characteristics.

Following this project, Toulouse was named the director of a modern clinic in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif in 1898.

[2] A number of important figures worked on the journal, including Antonin Artaud and Jean Paulhan.