Pierre Janet
French physician and psychologist (1859–1947) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 19th-century French bibliographer, see Pierre Jannet (bibliographer).
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.
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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 |
Nationality | French |
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Fields | Psychology, philosophy, psychiatry |
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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]