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Charcot
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noun
Jean Baptiste Étienne Auguste 1867–1936, French explorer.
his father Jean Martin 1825–93, French neuropathologist.
Charcot
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noun
Jean Martin (ʒɑ̃ martɛ̃). 1825–93, French neurologist, noted for his attempt using hypnotism to find an organic cause for hysteria, which influenced Freud
Example Sentences
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.
As a child, Jacob was treated for neurasthenia by Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s mentor.
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.
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.
ever you make of Charcot’s outdated, politically problematic medical categories, his idea of unthinkable transformation surely resonates.
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