Robert Desoille

Psychologist, Deceased Person

1890 – 1966

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Who was Robert Desoille?

Robert Desoille was a French psychotherapist. A graduate of the Sorbonne, he became known for his studies on waking dreams.

Desoille was born in Besançon into a family of military officers and began a scientific education in engineering that he would never complete after being mobilized in World War I. After his 1923 meeting with Colonel Eugène Caslant, who introduced him to an experimental mental imaging technique, he developed his method of the "directed waking dream", explicating it in seven books.

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Born
May 29, 1890
Besançon
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Died
Oct 10, 1966
Paris

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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