Georges Heuyer (30 January 1884 in Pacy-sur-Eure – 23 October 1977 in Paris) was a physician and child psychiatrist in France, who was appointed to the first chair of child psychiatry in Europe.
[1] Georges Heuyer defended his thesis for his doctorate of medicine in 1914, from which he obtained the silver medal, under the supervision of Professor Ernest Dupré.
[1] Although not a psychoanalyst himself, he introduced the practice of psychoanalysis in a hospital environment, first with the Freudian analyst Eugénie Sokolnicka (whom he met thanks to the novelist Paul Bourget), then with Sophie Morgenstern to whom he entrusted a psychoanalysis laboratory.
[1] In 1925, he was a co-founder, with Jadwiga Abramson, of the Clinic of Pediatric Neuro-Psychiatry in Paris.
Heuyer wrote extensively on child psychiatry (ten books and more than one hundred publications).