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Pierre Janet
Pierre Marie Félix Janet, (
May 30 1859 -
February 24 1947) was a pioneering French
psychologist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He was one of the first persons to draw a connection between events in the subject's past life and their present day trauma, and coined the words ‘dissociation’ and ‘subconscious’. He studied under
Jean-Martin Charcot at the Psychological Laboratory in
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, in
Paris. In several ways, he preceeded
Sigmund Freud. Many consider Janet, rather than Freud, the true 'founder' of
psychoanalysis and
psychotherapy. He first published the results of his research in his philosophy thesis in 1889 and in his medical thesis,
L'état mental des hystériques, in 1892. In 1898 Janet was appointed lecturer in psychology at the
Sorbonne, and in 1902 he attained the chair of experimental and comparative psychology at the
Collège de France, a position he held until 1936. He was a member of the
Institut de France from 1913. In 1923 he wrote a definitive text,
La médecine psychologique, on suggestion and in 1928-32, he published several definitive papers on memory. Whilst he did not publish much in English, his
Harvard University lectures in 1908 were published as
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria and he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard in 1936.
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http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2467.html a short biography*
http://www.sidran.org/refs/ref12.html bibliographic site*
http://www.trauma-pages.com/vdhart-89.htm reading guide*
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Janet/murchison.htm an 'autobiography' of his early years*
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl04ab.html Pierre Janet & the 'Reality Function'*
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/bitstream/1794/1402/1/Diss_2_1_2_OCR.pdf A reader's guide to Pierre Janet on Dissociation: A neglected intellectual heritageWorks of Pierre Janet
http://www.pnl-nlp.org/download/medecinepsychologique/ La Médecine Psychologique Important book by Pierre Janet. It clarifies what he thought about Suggestion. (PDF download in French)
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