The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] / by Pierre Janet.

  • Janet, Pierre, 1859-1947.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] / by Pierre Janet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    called momentarily to teach among you. No doubt I congratulate myself very much upon the choice which has been made; it is for me a great honour, it gives me an opportunity to see again a town of which I am very fond, and to try to diffuse among you some ideas to which I hold. But I dare not congratulate you upon this choice, for I am afraid my ignorance of your methods of teaching, and above all my ignorance of your tongue, will make these lectures very hard to understand and very painful to hear. First, I make you my apologies; then, I wish you may overcome this bad luck and forget as much as possible the in- correctness and strangeness of my language. This done, let us all do our best — you to understand me tolerably well and to draw from these lectures some notions of what interests French students; I, to speak nearly intelligible English and to give you as favourable an impression as possible of the psychological study of nervous diseases in the French universities. With the approval of President Eliot and of Pro- fessor James J. Putnam, I have chosen as the subject of these lectures the study of that nervous and mental disease called Hysteria. The reason of this choice is that from many points of view this study seems to me pretty well to answer the wish of the professors who called me. When a foreign professor is asked to express his ideas in another country, he is expected to expose one of the most characteristic studies of his