biography
pronunciation:
[zhanay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1947)
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| biography:
| Psychologist and neurologist, born in Paris, France. He studied under Jean Martin Charcot, lectured in philosophy, and became the director of the psychological laboratory at La Salpêtrière hospital in Paris (1899), and professor of psychology at the Sorbonne (1898) and Collège de France (1902). His theory of hysteria, which linked ‘dissociation’ with a lowering of psychic energy, was described by Sigmund Freud as the first significant psychological theory, based as it was on sound clinical practice. |
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