PSYCHOLOGIST

Émile Coué

1857 - 1926

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Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (French: [emil kue də la ʃɑtɛɲʁɛ]; 26 February 1857 – 2 July 1926) was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. It was in no small measure [Coué's] wholehearted devotion to a self-imposed task that enabled him, in less than a quarter of a century, to rise from obscurity to the position of the world’s most famous psychological exponent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Coué is the 125th most popular psychologist (down from 98th in 2019), the 2,190th most popular biography from France (down from 1,654th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Émile Coué ranks 125 out of 235. Before him are Oswald Külpe, Amos Tversky, Jean Tatlock, Thomas Gordon, Robert Plutchik, and Benjamin Spock. After him are Frederic Bartlett, René Spitz, Otto F. Kernberg, Robert Cialdini, Helene Deutsch, and Henri Wallon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Émile Coué ranks 58. Before him are Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Le Pétomane, Juan Vicente Gómez, Jacques de Morgan, Luigi Illica, and Ayub Khan. After him are Hermann Sudermann, Alfred Loisy, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, Herman Bang, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1926, Émile Coué ranks 43. Before him are Théo van Rysselberghe, Eino Leino, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Robert Todd Lincoln, Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, and Ivana Kobilca. After him are Nikolay Chkheidze, Leonid Krasin, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Victor Babeș, and Léon Charles Thévenin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Coué ranks 2,190 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Lancret (1690), Pierre Fauchard (1679), Jo Schlesser (1928), Paul Virilio (1932), Jean Djorkaeff (1939), and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805). After him are Marina Ginestà (1919), Pierre Monteux (1875), Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911), Gunnor (950), Niels Arestrup (1949), and Michel Lotito (1950).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In France

Among psychologists born in France, Émile Coué ranks 7. Before him are Jacques Lacan (1901), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Alfred Binet (1857), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Pierre Janet (1859), and Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839). After him are Henri Wallon (1879), Françoise Dolto (1908), Jacques-Alain Miller (1944), Jean Laplanche (1924), and Boris Cyrulnik (1937).

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