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- Janet (l, p. 589) - One hundred years ago, in 1889, Pierre Janet (1859-1947) published Líautomatisme psychologique (2), his first book to explore the psychological processes involved in the transformation of traumatic experiences into psychopathology. During the preceding century, Benjamin Rush and various French psychiatrists,
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Jun 11, 2018 · Pierre Marie Félix Janet. Pierre Marie Félix Janet (1859-1947) was a French psychologist particularly well known for his work on psychopathology and psychotherapy. Born in Paris on May 28, 1859, Pierre Janet spent his childhood and youth in that city. His bent for natural sciences led him to pursue studies in physiology at the Sorbonne at the ...
The 1970 debut of Henri Ellenberger's magnus opus, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Modern Psychiatry, with its beautiful and enlightening chapter on Pierre Janet, has inspired contemporary generations of clinicians to rediscover his ground-breaking studies. Janet's insights and therapeutic approaches remain extremely instructive and relevant to contemporary ...
Apr 30, 2018 · Pierre Janet’s works on conversion disorders or dissociative disorders has mainly fallen to the wayside in favour of Freud’s works. In the first part of this paper, Janet’s conception of hysteria is discussed and his place in French psychiatry described. Different aspects of Janet’s diathesis-stress approach are presented (particularly the pathogenic concept of fixed ideas), which ...
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Pierre Janet. Pierre Marie Félix Janet (May 30, 1859 – February 24, 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot, whose pioneering study of dissociative disorders laid the foundation for analytical psychology. Janet studied instances in which individuals appeared to be functioning autonomously from their normal ...
Presents biographic information about Pierre Janet (1859-1947), a French psychiatrist and psychologist he has been hailed as a precursor of the study of traumatic stress and dissociation and as a founder of integrative psychotherapy.
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Pierre Janet (1859-1947), a French psychiatrist, published a book concerning obsessions and compulsions in 1903. His 750-page tome has never been translated into English. However, a detailed English-language synopsis is available, from which this excerpt is taken.
