- Étienne-Jean Georget
Étienne-Jean Georget (1795-1828) was a French
psychiatrist who was a native of Vernon-on-Brenne. He studied medicine inTours andParis , and afterwards worked at theSalpêtrière . In Paris he was a student and assistant toPhilippe Pinel andJean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol .Georget specialized in the study of
psychopathology , and made improvements to Pinel'snosology of mental illnesses. He classified several types ofmonomania by names such as "theomania" (religious obsession), "erotomania " (sexual obsession), "demonomania" (obsession with evil) and "homicidal monomania", which dealt with senseless murder.In the early 1820s he commissioned painter
Théodore Géricault to paint a series of portraits of mental patients so that his students could study the facial traits of "monomaniacs". Between 1821 and 1824 Géricault created ten paintings of mental patients, including those of a kidnapper, a kleptomaniac, a gambling addict and a woman "consumed with envy".References
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia."
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