Jules Janet (22 December 1861 – 1945) was a French

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

, psychologist and psychotherapist, best known today for his clinical contributions to psychological trauma as the cause of

hysteria Hysteria is a term used colloquially to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. In the nineteenth century, hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women. It is assumed that ...

, a view shared with his brother

Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

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Jules Janet (1861-1945)
1861 births 1945 deaths University of Paris faculty École Normale Supérieure alumni French psychiatrists French hypnotists {{France-med-bio-stub