Pierre Janet
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Key facts
- Born
- Pierre Marie Félix Janet , ( 1859-05-30 ) 30 May 1859, Paris , French Empire
- Died
- 24 February 1947 (1947-02-24) (aged 87), Paris, France
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure ( B.A. , 1882), University of Paris ( Ph.D . 1889; M.D. , 1893)
- Fields
- Psychology , philosophy , psychiatry
- Institutions
- Collège de France (1902–1934), University of Paris (1898–1902), Salpêtrière Hospital (1890–1910)
- Doctoral advisor
- Jean-Martin Charcot (M.D. advisor)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Félix
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sibling
- Jules Janet
- Occupation
- physician
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Medicine
- Field of work
- psychiatry
- Image
- Janet, Pierre CIPB1848.jpg
- Political ideology
- Republicanism
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- Commons category
- Pierre Janet
- birth name
- Pierre Marie Félix Janet
- date of birth
- 1859-05-30
- date of death
- 1947-02-24
- Commons Creator page
- Pierre Janet
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Pierre Janet
- cause of death
- pulmonary edema
- archives at
- Collège de France
- writing language
- French
- student
- William James
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (/ʒɑːˈneɪ/; 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. He was the first to introduce the link between past experiences and present-day disturbances and was noted for his studies involving induced somnambulism.
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