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Gaétan Henri Alfred Edouard Léon Marie Gatian de Clérambault
French psychiatrist, born July 2, 1872, Bourges; died 1934.
Associated eponyms:
Clérambault's syndrome
A condition in which a woman becomes deluded that a certain man is in love with her.
Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome
A confusing clinical entity in which the patient believes his mind is being controlled by someone else or external forces
Biography:
Gaétan Henri Alfred Edouard Léon Marie Gatian de Clérambault gained his thesis in 1899. In 1905 he became assistant physician at the special infirmary for the insane, prefecture de police. From 1920 he was head og this institution. Apart from his psychiatric studies he wrote on the costumes of various native tribes. He committed suicide.
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