Jean-Martin Charcot
Standard Name: Charcot, Jean-Martin
Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Frankau | The title-page of The Copper Crash quotes lines by Nicholas Rowe
, the early eighteenth-century author of she-tragedies featuring pathetic heroines. Frank Danby's preface broaches the topic of hypnotism, which it regards as a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Deborah Levy | The book purports to be a journal kept by a steak as it waits to be sold and waits, too, for gradually encroaching madness to engulf it. As the steak considers attitudes to madness, psychoanalysis... |
Textual Features | Iza Duffus Hardy | The plot turns on mesmerism or hypnotism: IDH
had prepared herself by reading accounts of the work of Charcot
(whom she paid a doubtful compliment in borrowing his name for her sinful protagonist), and by... |
Timeline
29 November 1825
Psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot
was born in Paris.
1856
1870
French physician Jean-Martin Charcot
began developing a systematic theory of hysteria.
Circa 1870
At La Salpêtrière
hospital in Paris, patients classified as non-psychotic epileptics and hysterics were moved into the Quarter for Pure Epileptics, with Jean-Martin Charcot
as the senior physician.
1878-1893
Jean-Martin Charcot
gave increasingly popular public lectures on hysteria at La Salpêtrière
in Paris.
1881
The Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System was established at La Salpêtrière
by France's Chamber of Deputies
, making neurology a separate discipline; Jean-Martin Charcot
was appointed as first Chair in 1882.
1885
Jean-Martin Charcot
became president of the newly-formed but short-lived Society of Physiological Psychology
.
October 1885-February 1886
15 October 1886
Sigmund Freud
presented a paper to the Viennese Society of Physicians
called On Male Hysteria and established his private practice for the treatment of hysterics in Vienna.
1889
Jean-Martin Charcot
's London publication On Diseases of the Nervous System argued that sufferers of anorexia nervosa required isolation from family and friends.
1891
During the 1890s Hippolyte Bernheim
of the University of Nancy
in Alsace-Lorraine challenged Jean-Martin Charcot
's idea that hysteria was a physical ailment; Bernheim argued that hysteria should be considered a psychological problem.
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