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Pierre Janet
Pierre Marie Félix Janet was a pioneering French psychologist, physician, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
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science · French physician and psychologist (1859–1947) · philosopher · psychologist · professor · psychotherapist · neurologist · psychiatrist · physician · also Pierre Janet, Janet
Born 30 May 1859 · Died 24 February 1947 · Q328758
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1947· 1 entry
Died 1947-02-24.
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1934· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1934).
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1932· 1 entry
A member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1938, and an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 1940
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1923· 1 entry
Janet wrote a definitive text on suggestion, La médecine psychologique, and in 1928-32 published several definitive papers on memory
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1913· 2 entries
Said, "I think he has unnecessarily forfeited much credit"
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Janet argued that many of the novel terms of psychoanalysis were only old concepts renamed, even down to the way in which his own "psychological analysis" preceded Freud's "psychoanalysis"
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1911· 1 entry
Of the neurotic's withdrawal from reality, Freud stated: "Nor could a fact like this escape the observation of Pierre Janet; he spoke of a loss of 'the function of reality'", and as late as 1930, Freud drew on Janet's ex
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1902· 1 entry
And was much influenced by him, for example equating what he called a complex with Janet's idée fixe subconsciente
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1901· 1 entry
Founded the French Psychological Society and a year later he attained the chair of experimental and comparative psychology at the Collège de France, a position he held until 1936
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1898· 1 entry
Janet was appointed lecturer in psychology at the Sorbonne
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1890· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1890–1910).
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1889· 1 entry
And in his medical thesis, L'état mental des hystériques, in 1892
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1882· 1 entry
Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1879–1882).
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1859· 1 entry
Born 1859-05-30.
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