Pierre Janet

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Neil, thanks for bringing up the name of Pierre Janet. Googling him brings up 184,000 hits!  He's an important and under-estimated thinker who has insights that challenged some of Freud's---perhaps explaining why his work was not fully appreciated during the hegemony of psychoanalysis---a hegemony that tended to also devalue the many insights of others, such as Adler or Jung (who were characterized by the mainstream as merely disaffected former disciples with a father complex rather than mature colleagues with independent and often valid insights), Assagioli (psychosynthesis), Reich, Adolf Meyer, Janet, and so forth. 

         So far I haven't heard of anyone who has investigated common themes. I'm not aware of any evidence suggesting that Moreno knew much if anything about Janet's work. How is it you have become interested?  Perhaps you might help us enrich our work by noting some arenas where Janet's insights might be helpful in our own theory development and practice. 
        (And of course I too would be interested if Anne knows of any overlap in the French psychological literature.)

        Warmly, Adam
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Neil Hucker 
  To: Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger ; list at grouptalkweb.org 
  Cc: Schutzenberger Anne ; AZAIS JPA Jean-Philippe 
  Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:39 AM
  Subject: Re: Re:reaction to Anath & Anna Schaum -subtle opression / ListDigest, Vol 25, Issue 18


  Dear Anne, this is Neil Hucker in Melbourne Australia. I am a psychiatrist psychodramatist and I briefly met you in Melbourne when you were at the PIM conference.
  I would like to know whether you have any knowledge about Piere Janet a French psychiatrist. (1859-1947) In particulat whether there has been any integration of Janet's theory and psychodrama in France.
  regards 
  Neil
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