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Étienne-Jean Georget (2 April 1795〔Postel (2007), (p. 221 )〕 – 14 May 1828〔Postel (2007), (p. 222 )〕) was an early French psychiatrist. He is known for writing on monomania. He is also the pioneer of forensic psychiatry, and was the first psychiatrist to discuss the defence of insanity to criminal charges. == Biography== Georget was born in Vernou-sur-Brenne (Indre-et-Loire), into a poor farming family. He was poorly educated, which he fellt handicapped his career.〔(Semelaigne, p. 188 ) 〕 He studied medicine in Tours, then in Paris where he was a student of Philippe Pinel and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol. From 1815 he worked at the Salpêtrière hospital.〔 In 1820 he attained fame with his book ''De la folie'' (''On insanity''). Georget specialized in psychopathology. He refined and clarified Pinel's nosology of mental illnesses. He distinguished several types of monomania such as "theomania" (religious obsession), "erotomania" (sexual obsession), "demonomania" (obsession with evil) and "homicidal monomania" (obsession with murder). He also held the view that it is possible for criminals to be held legally responsible for their crimes by reason of insanity.〔For a short account of Georget's ideas on that point, see (Semelaigne, p. 194 )〕 Georget ridiculed the idea of the uterine origin of hysteria and maintained that it was a disease of men as well as women.〔Micale (2008), p. 65〕 He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine and of the Medical Society of London. The theoretical work of Georget was influential in establishing the view that 19th century writers of romantic fiction took of the insane and of criminals. Georget died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 33. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Étienne-Jean Georget」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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