Pierre janet biography
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Pierre Janet
French physician and psychologist (1859–1947)
For the 19th-century French bibliographer, see Pierre Jannet (bibliographer).
Pierre Janet | |
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| Born | Pierre Marie Félix Janet (1859-05-30)30 May 1859 Paris, France |
| Died | 24 February 1947(1947-02-24) (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology, philosophy, psychiatry |
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (; French:[ʒanɛ]; 30 May 1859 – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, physician, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology.[1] He was the first to introduce the link between past experiences and present-day disturbances and was noted for his studies involving induced somnambulism.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Janet studied under Jean-Martin Charcot at the Psychological Laboratory
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Classics in the History of Psychology
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Autobiography of Pierre Janet [*]
First published in Murchison, Carl. (Ed.) (1930). History of Psychology in Autobiography (Vol. 1, pp. 123-133).
Republished by the permission of Clark University Press, Worcester, MA.
© 1930 Clark University Press.
Posted March 2000
The editor of this collection had a very unique idea when he asked psychologists to write their own intellectual histories and criticisms, to transform themselves into philosophical historians, and treat themselves as though they had been dead for a long time. This hardly seems right since we are too active and too close to our own work to judge it with independence and to understand the influences which have unknowingly drawn us in certain directions. I have always protested against subjective psychology, and here I am asked for a most persona
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Pierre Janet. A Short Biography
Pierre Janet. A Short Biography. Introduction
Pierre Janet (30 May 1859 – 24 February 1947) was born in Paris into an educated middle-class family. His father, Jules Janet, a Parisian lawyer, and his devout Catholic mother, Fanny Hummel, set the stage for Pierre’s intellectual journey.
Paris, with its Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, was the birthplace of modern psychiatry. It became renowned throughout europe thanks to Philippe Pinel and Martine Charcot. Pinel’s “chain liberation” of the mentally ill is often seen as breakthrough to a human concept of psychiatry. On the other grabb, Charcot, known as “the Napoleon of neurosis “, was the gratest contributor to the 19th century development of modern psychology and neurology. Later on, Pierre Janet’s research gave a noticeable impuls for Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis.
Janet’s early interests fluctuated between a fascination with the natural sc