Pierre Janet

Pierre Janet, actually Pierre- Marie Félix Janet (* May 30, 1859 in Paris, † February 24, 1947 ibid ), was a French philosopher, psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He is the founder of the modern dynamic psychiatry. In his therapeutic approaches it may be regarded as a forerunner of modern psychotherapy.

Biography

Pierre Janet visited the famous Collège Sainte -Barbe in Paris, where Ignatius of Loyola and Calvin went to school. He managed the 1879 admission to the elite École Normale Supérieure, where he Agrégation de 1882 consisted philosophy as the second best.

From 1882 to 1889 he taught at the Lycée in Châteauroux and Le Havre. In his spare time, he worked as a volunteer at the hospital in Le Havre and took on their own psychiatric research. These studies formed the basis for Janet's main thesis: L' Automatisme Psychologique. In this work he distinguished between subconscious and consciousness.

Janet studied medicine from 1889 to 1893 and worked on Charcot stations at the Salpêtrière, where he began his clinical research again. In the medical doctoral thesis he presented his theory of hysteria dar.

From 1893 to 1902 he worked in the research laboratory of experimental psychology, which Charcot had set up for him. At the same time he taught at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France philosophy. Janet taught from 1895 experimental and comparative psychology at the Collège de France, where he was professor from 1902 to 1934.

In 1904 he was invited for a lecture series to America and in 1913 he attended the International Congress of Medicine, the role of the critic of Freud's psychoanalysis.

His book Les Médications psychologiques, a systematic treatise on psychotherapy, was published in 1919. From 1925, Janet continued to develop his new system of psychology of behavior.

In 1935, he took his leave of the Collège de France, but devoted himself to continue his private practice.

Work

Janet stood at the beginning of the modern dynamic psychiatry. His work was a major source of Freud, Adler and Jung. He has the word " subconscious " was coined, his concepts are reflected in Bleuler's schizophrenia and autism in boys complex, in Adler's sense of inferiority and in Freud's Studies on Hysteria (1895 ). His thoughts are so widespread that their origin is most often not recognized and therefore is attributed to others. The modern understanding of dissociation, an important term from the psycho-traumatology, has been anticipated in substantial parts through him.