Jacques-Étienne Belhomme (29 January 1800 – 16 February 1880) was a French

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

who was a native of Paris. He was the son of

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Jacques Belhomme (1737–1824), who managed a ''maison de santé'' (

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) for the insane on Rue de Charonne in Paris. Belhomme studied medicine in Paris, and worked under

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(1772–1840) at the Salpêtrière. His 1824 dissertation, ''Essai sur l´idiotie'' was one of the earliest works dedicated to the education of the mentally handicapped. After his father's death in 1824, he inherited the elder Belhomme's ''maison de santé''. Belhomme was a leading figure in French

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, and believed that insanity could be anatomically localized in certain regions of the brain. In 1839 he became secretary of the ''Société phrénologique''. Publications by Belhomme include: * ''Considerations sur l'appreciation de la folie, sa localisation et son traitement'', 1834 * ''Quatrième Mémoire sur la localisation des fonctions cérébrales et d la folie'', 1845

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Console and Classify, the French Psychiatric Profession by

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(translated biography from Portuguese)

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* French psychiatrists Physicians from Paris 1800 births 1880 deaths {{France-psychiatrist-stub

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