Jean-Martin Charcot

Standard Name: Charcot, Jean-Martin

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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...
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...

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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.

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 .

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

Sigmund Freud worked with Jean-Martin Charcot at La Salpêtrière in Paris.

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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