Dissociation in the DSM–5: Your View S’Il Vous Plaît, Docteur Janet?

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Onno van der Hart for his helpful comments on a previous version of the text.

Notes

1. For an overview of Janet’s main works, see Van der Hart and Friedman (1989).

2. See Janet (1930).

3. Janet’s first education was in philosophy, and he became a professor of philosophy in Le Havre at the age of 22. I therefore assume he was aware of Schopenhauer’s (1818/1958, 1844/1958) main works. Janet was certainly familiar with Spinoza’s (1677/1996) philosophy (e.g., Ethics). His uncle and philosopher Paul Janet, who had a major influence on his nephew (Ellenberger, 1970 ), wrote an introduction to Spinoza’s work and translated one of his books. Pierre Janet may also have known the works of phenomenologists such as those of phenomenology’s founding father Edmund Husserl, who lived from 1859 to 1938 (see Husserl, 1970). He was certainly aware of the work of Henri Bergson, who was his classmate and who had a major influence on phenomenologists such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

4. See Briquet (1859, p. 196).