Jean-Martin Charcot

Standard Name: Charcot, Jean-Martin

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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...

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29 November 1825: Psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot was born...

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29 November 1825

Psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot was born in Paris.
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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1856: Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des...

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1856

Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des Hôspitaux de Paris at La Salpêtrière .
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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1870: French physician Jean-Martin Charcot began...

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1870

French physician Jean-Martin Charcot began developing a systematic theory of hysteria.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. “Gentlemen’s Spleen”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2009, pp. 25-7.
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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.
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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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.
Micale, Mark S. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and its Interpretations. Princeton University Press, 1995, http://HSS.
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Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. “Gentlemen’s Spleen”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2009, pp. 25-7.
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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.
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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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 .
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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October 1885-February 1886: Sigmund Freud worked with Jean-Martin Charcot...

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October 1885-February 1886

Sigmund Freud worked with Jean-Martin Charcot at La Salpêtrière in Paris.
Micale, Mark S. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and its Interpretations. Princeton University Press, 1995, http://HSS.
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Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. “Gentlemen’s Spleen”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2009, pp. 25-7.
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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.
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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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.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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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.
Micale, Mark S. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and its Interpretations. Princeton University Press, 1995, http://HSS.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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