Joseph Capgras

Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (23 August 1873 – 27 January 1950) was a French psychiatrist who is best known for the Capgras delusion, a disorder named after him.

This article is about the psychiatrist. For for the mental condition, see Capgras delusion.
Joseph Capgras
Born(1873-08-23)23 August 1873
Verdun-sur-Garonne, France
Died27 January 1950(1950-01-27) (aged 76)
Paris, France
Known forDiscovery of and research on the Capgras delusion
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
Psychiatry

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.[1]

With his mentor, Paul Sérieux (1864–1947), he contributed on psychiatric publications such as Les Folies raisonnantes (1909) ("Reasoning madnesses. Misinterpretative delusional states"[2]) and Les Psychoses à base d'interprétations délirantes.[3] 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" (the illusion of doubles[4]) dans un délire systématisé chronique. This disorder is defined as a delusion that a close relative or friend has been replaced by an impostor.[5]

Notes
  1. The Clinical Roots of the Schizophrenia Concept by John Cutting, p. 168.
  2. Luauté, Jean-Pierre (2012-12-01). "Joseph Capgras (1873–1950). Sa vie, son œuvre". Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique (in French). 170 (10): 748–756. doi:10.1016/j.amp.2012.10.001. ISSN 0003-4487.
  3. IDREF.fr (publications)
  4. "Capgras syndrome". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  5. Capgras' delusion at Who Named It

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