Pierre Janet

JANET, PIERRE (1859– ), French psychologist, was born on May 3o, 1859, in Paris, and educated at the Ecole Normale and the Ecole de Medecine in Paris. From 1881 to 1898 he lectured on philosophy at the lycees of Chateauroux and The Hague, at the College Rollin, and at the lycees Louis-le-Grand and Condorcet. During the period 1889-98 he was at the same time director of the psychological laboratory of la Salpetriere. From 1898 to 1902 he lectured on psychology at the Sorbonne, and was then appointed professeur suppleant at the College de France, where he became professor of psychology in 1902. He is

also the director of the Journal de Psychologie normale et patho logique.

His publications include:

L'Automatisme psychologique (1889) ; L'Etat mental des hysteriques (2 vols. 1893) ; Nevroses et idees fixes (2 vols. 1898) ; Les Obsessions et la Psychastenie (2 vols. 1903) ; Les Nevroses (1908) ; The Major Symptoms of Hysteria (1908) ; Les Meditations psychologiques (3 vols. 1920, Eng. trs. 2 vols.) ; La Mede cine psychologique (1923, Eng. trs.) ; De L'angoisse a rextase (vol. i., 1926; vol. ii, 1928) ; Cours sur l'amour et la haine (1933).