Psychological AutomatI'm / L'Automatisme psychologique

The existence of the unconscious was first demonstrated in 1889 by Pierre Janet in Psychological AutomatI'm. Before Freud, Janet found that when certain patients remembered unconscious traumas, they got better. His fiedings are illustrated with numerous case studies. The book was an I'mediate success and would remain popular for forty years. Although Psychological AutomatI'm is regarded as a basic textbook and is frequently cited, it has been out of print for decades. The publication of this new edition is to be applauded. Readers will now be able to discover or rediscover Janet's major synthesis of the workings of the human mied and his significant contributions to the field of psychology. A philosopher and professor at the Coll ge de France, Pierre Janet (1859-1947) also headed the psychology laboratory at the Clinic of Neuropsychology of the Salp tri re, in Paris, which at the time was directed by Jean-Martin Charcot. Janet is the author of N vroses et Id es Fixes and De l'Angoisse l'Extase.