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Charcot

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noun

  1. Jean Bap·tiste É·tienne Au·guste [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest, ey-, tyen, oh-, gyst], 1867–1936, French explorer.
  2. his father Jean Mar·tin [zhah, n, m, a, r, -, tan], 1825–93, French neuropathologist.


Charcot

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noun

  1. CharcotJean Martin18251893MFrenchSCIENCE: neurologist Jean Martin (ʒɑ̃ martɛ̃). 1825–93, French neurologist, noted for his attempt using hypnotism to find an organic cause for hysteria, which influenced Freud
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In the same time period, French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot suggested that patients experiencing symptoms associated with what doctors then called "hysteria" perhaps actually had a history of trauma.

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As a child, Jacob was treated for neurasthenia by Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s mentor.

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In Austria the hero is Sigmund Freud, and only recently has Andreas Mayer laid out just how much he learned from Jean-Martin Charcot’s use of hypnosis.

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Hysteria, originally thought to be a gynaecological condition affecting only women, was recast as neurological in part through the efforts of distinguished nineteenth-century French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot.

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Whatever you make of Charcot’s outdated, politically problematic medical categories, his idea of unthinkable transformation surely resonates.

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