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Also Known As Pierre-Marie-Félix Janet
Born May 30, 1859 • Paris • France
Died February 24, 1947 (aged 87) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study conversion disorder • hypnosis • mental disorder • unconscious
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Benedict Augustin Morel
French psychologist
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
American psychologist
Clark L. Hull
American psychologist
Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychologist
George Weinberg
American clinical psychologist
Édouard Claparède
Swiss educator and psychologist
Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer
Austrian physician
Theodora Mead Abel
American psychologist and educator
Morton Prince
American psychologist
Heinrich Klüver
American psychologist and neurologist
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French philosopher
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet
French psychologist
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist
Philippe Pinel
Philippe Pinel
French physician
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
French physiologist
Pierre Marie
French neurologist
Duchenne, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand
Duchenne de Boulogne
French neurologist
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist