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Pierre Janet

1859 - 1947

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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. He was the first to introduce the link between past experiences and present-day disturbances and was noted for his studies involving induced somnambulism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Janet is the 59th most popular psychologist (down from 58th in 2019), the 999th most popular biography from France (down from 974th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Psychologist.

Pierre Janet is most famous for his work with hysteria and dissociation. He was the first to suggest that the symptoms of hysteria are a result of an "involuntary splitting of consciousness."

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Pierre Janet ranks 59 out of 235. Before him are Sándor Ferenczi, Martin Seligman, Antonio Damasio, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Raymond Cattell, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. After him are Stanley Milgram, Alice Miller, Fritz Perls, Leon Festinger, William Stern, and Raymond Moody.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Pierre Janet ranks 20. Before him are Verner von Heidenstam, Sholem Aleichem, Alexandre Millerand, Jean Jaurès, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, and Jerome K. Jerome. After him are Hugo Junkers, Alexander Samsonov, Anna Ancher, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Venustiano Carranza, and Francisco Ferrer. Among people deceased in 1947, Pierre Janet ranks 38. Before him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Alexander Löhr, Annie S. D. Maunder, Qazi Muhammad, Georg von Trapp, and Reginald Innes Pocock. After him are Josephine Bakhita, Hans Fallada, Pyotr Krasnov, Emma Orczy, Irving Fisher, and Bugsy Siegel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Janet ranks 999 out of 6,770. Before him are Michael Lonsdale (1931), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Joan II of Navarre (1311), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Jacques Cassini (1677). After him are Claude Jade (1948), Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (1627), Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), Fromental Halévy (1799), Eugène Scribe (1791), and Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In France

Among psychologists born in France, Pierre Janet ranks 5. Before him are Jacques Lacan (1901), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Alfred Binet (1857), and Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882). After him are Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), Émile Coué (1857), Henri Wallon (1879), Françoise Dolto (1908), Jacques-Alain Miller (1944), Jean Laplanche (1924), and Boris Cyrulnik (1937).

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