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...
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29 November 1825
Psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot
was born in Paris.
1856: Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des...
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1856
Circa 1870: At La Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, patients...
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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.
1870: French physician Jean-Martin Charcot began...
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1870
French physician Jean-Martin Charcot
began developing a systematic theory of hysteria.
1878-1893: Jean-Martin Charcot gave increasingly popular...
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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...
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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...
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1885
Jean-Martin Charcot
became president of the newly-formed but short-lived Society of Physiological Psychology
.
October 1885-February 1886: Sigmund Freud worked with Jean-Martin Charcot...
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October 1885-February 1886
15 October 1886: Sigmund Freud presented a paper to the Viennese...
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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...
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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...
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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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