Born 30 May 1859; died 24 Feb 1947 at age 87.

#French #psychopathologist and #neurologist influential in bringing about in France and the United States a connection between #academic #psychology and the clinical #treatment of #mental illnesses.

He stressed #psychological factors in #hypnosis and contributed to the modern concept of mental and #emotional #disorders involving #anxiety, #phobias, and other abnormal behaviour.

Janet is remembered for his #dissociation theory of #hysteria and hypnosis. His first case study, that of a hypnotic subject named Léonie, was published in 1886. He introduced the words dissociation and #subconscious into psychological #terminology and attributed hysteria and hypnotic susceptibility to #inherited dispositions toward #imbalances in #psychic #energy and psychic #tension.

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