Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (French Psychiatrist) 1873-1950

Joseph Capgras Demographics:

• Name - Jean Marie Joseph Capgras
• Born - 1873 (Verdun-sur-Garonne)
• Death – 1950 (Paris)
• Nationality - French
• Occupation - Psychiatrist

Joseph Capgras Important Facts:

• He was a brilliant student at the Montauban lycee where he trained in Medicine.
• Student of the French Psychiatrist Valentin Magnan.
• Capras became Chief Psychiatrist at the Maison-Blanche asylum.
• Popular because of his extreme benevolence.
• Capgras was very open to the ideas of his young co-workers, even if they expressed views that he did not share.

Jean Marie Joseph Capgras & the Capgras Delusion:

• Best known for first describing the the Capgras delusion in 1923 together with his assistant Jean Reboul-Lachaux; when they were working at the Sainte-Anne Hospital.
• The case was first presented at the meeting of the Clinical Society for Mental Medicine (10 January 1923).
• They described the case of a 53 year old woman whom they wrote had l'illusion des sosies.
• Sosies is the French word for "doubles".

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