Joseph Capgras, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Verdun-sur-Garonne, Occitania, France
About Joseph Capgras
- Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (23 August 1873, Verdun-sur-Garonne – 27 January 1950, Paris) was a French psychiatrist who is best known for the Capgras delusion, a disorder named after him. He received his medical degree in Toulouse, later working in several mental institutions in France.
- During the latter part of his career, he was associated with Hôpital Sainte-Anne.With his mentor, Paul Sérieux (1864–1947), he contributed on psychiatric publications such as Les Folies raisonnantes (1909) and Les Psychoses à base d'interprétations délirantes.
- With Sérieux, he described a type of non-schizophrenic, paranoid psychosis referred to as Délire d’interprétation de Sérieux et Capgras.
- Capgras delusion was described in 1923 in a study published by Capgras and his intern Jean Reboul-Lachaux, titled L'illusion des "sosies" dans un délire systématisé chronique.
- This disorder is defined as a delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor.
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