Louis P. Mars

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Louis P. Mars (20th Century)

Mars, the first Haitian physician to receive specialty training in psychiatry, was the son of Jean Eleomont Mars, a Protestant who lived in Grand Riviere du Nord, and Fortuna Delcour Michel. He studied at Columbia University in 1948.

Dr. Mars became Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and of Social Psychology at the Institute of Ethnology, Port-au-Prince, in the Republic of Haiti

Also, he was a member of the Societé Medico-Psychologique of Paris, a government Public Health Officer.

Haiti's foreign minister (1958 - 1959), he was invited by Eisenhower to the White House on 7 August 1958.

A non-believer and freethinker, Dr. Mars wrote "The Story of Zombi in Haiti" in Man: A Record of Anthropological Science Vol. XLV, no. 22. pp. 38-40. March-April, 1945.

(See his views about Voodoo).