Claude-François Michéa

Claude-François Michéa (14 March 1815 – 18 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]

References

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