Pierre Janet

Pierre Janet was born in Paris in 1859; his uncle was the philosopher Paul Janet. He studied and taught philosophy and became interested in hypnosis and hysteria. He then trained in medicine and worked under the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at the Psychological Laboratory of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. He published the results of his research in his philosophy thesis in 1889 and in his medical thesis on the mental state of hysterical patients in 1892, earning his medical doctorate in 1893. Janet was one of the first to describe how painful past experiences can cause present-day symptoms, and he introduced the terms 'dissociation' and 'subconscious'. In 1898 he became a lecturer in psychology at the Sorbonne, in 1901 he founded the French Psychological Society, and from 1902 to 1936 he held the chair of experimental and comparative psychology at the Collège de France. He lectured in the United States, where his Harvard lectures were published as The Major Symptoms of Hysteria (1907). He died in Paris in 1947.

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