Claude-François Michéa Explained

Claude-François Michéa (14 March 181518 July 1882) was a French psychiatrist and the secretary of the Medico-Psychological Society in France.[1] He is credited as "one of the first to modernise the theory of perversions",[2] as well as with publishing the "earliest paper that mentioned homosexuality in a psychiatric context".[3] Michéa described homosexuality as "the presence of female organs in male bodies".[4] He was also called to testify at the trial of François Bertrand, where he argued that Bertrand's necrophilia was "the most extreme and most rare of the deviations of the sexual appetite".[5] He died in Dijon.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Camille, Michael. The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame. 144. 2008. University of Chicago Press. 9780226092461.
  2. Book: Longman, Chia. Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives. 126. Barbara Saunders. Marie-Claire Foblets. 2002. 9789058672018. Leuven University Press. Dynamics of sex, gender and culture: The Native American berdache or 'two-spirit people' in discourse and context.
  3. Book: Dynes, Wayne R.. 792. 2. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. 2016. 9781317368120. Taylor & Francis.
  4. Book: Lvovsky, Anna. 68. Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall. 2021. 9780226769783. University of Chicago Press.
  5. Book: Downing, Lisa. 206. Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present. Eros and Thanatos in European and American Sexology. Kate Fisher. Sarah Toulalan. 2011. Palgrave Macmillan UK . 9780230283688.
  6. Book: Laehr, Heinrich. German. 217. Gedenktage der Psychiatrie und ihrer Hülfsdisciplinen in allen Ländern. 2018. 9783111673264. De Gruyter.

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