He is also the pioneer of forensic psychiatry, and was the first psychiatrist to discuss the defence of insanity to criminal charges.
[citation needed] Georget was born in Vernou-sur-Brenne (Indre-et-Loire), into a poor farming family.
[3] He studied medicine in Tours, then in Paris where he was a student of Philippe Pinel and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol.
[4] Georget ridiculed the idea of the uterine origin of hysteria and maintained that it was a disease of men as well as women.
The theoretical work of Georget was influential [citation needed] in establishing the view that 19th century writers of romantic fiction took of the insane and of criminals.