- Jacques-Étienne Belhomme
Jacques-Étienne Belhomme (
January 29 ,1800 -February 16 ,1880 ) was a Frenchpsychiatrist who was a native ofParis . He was the son ofcarpenter Jacques Belhomme (1737-1824), who managed a "maison de santé" for the insane on Rue de Charonne in Paris.Belhomme studied medicine in Paris, and worked under
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840) at the Salpêtrière. His 1824dissertation , "Essai sur l´idiotie" was one of the earliest works dedicated to the education of the mentally handicapped. After his father's death in 1824, he inherited the elder Belhomme's "maison de santé".Belhomme was a leading figure in French
phrenology , and believed that insanity could be anatomically localized in certain regions of thebrain . In 1839 he became secretary of the "Société phrénologique". Publications by Belhomme include:
* "Considerations sur l'appreciation de la folie, sa localisation et son traitement", 1834
* "Quatrième Mémoire sur la localisation des fontions cérébrales et d la folie", 1845References
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=WiqKcO5OawgC&pg=PA389&lpg=PA389&dq=Belhomme+Charonne+1800&source=web&ots=unn_dXFN1C&sig=bunKH0Nr92eJEBKVauypVsjmfsQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result Console and Classify, the French Psychiatric Profession by Jan Ellen Goldstein]
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.redepsi.com.br/portal/modules/wordbook/entry.php%3FentryID%3D183&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=8&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBelhomme%2BCharonne%2B1800%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Psicologia - RedePsi PsiPédia, Translated biography from Portuguese]
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