Pierre Janet

[PATRICIA DESERT]

I have read some of Janet's work and resonated with his perspective and 
theories on feelings.  I am interested in hearing from others who may have 
read him and what they took away from it.  Patti



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>From: "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: Adam Blatner <adam at blatner.com>
>To: "Neil Hucker" <eddy1 at labyrinth.net.au>,<list at grouptalkweb.org>
>Subject: Pierre Janet
>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:30:35 -0500
>
>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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