Catalepsy Memory and Suggestion in Psychological Automatism

<p>Pierre Janet’s <i>L'Automatisme psychologique</i> originally published in 1889 is one of the earliest and most important books written on the study of trauma and dissociation. Here it is made available in two volumes in English for the first time with a new preface by Giuseppe Craparo and Onno van der Hart. </p><p><em>Catalepsy Memory and Suggestion in Psychological Automatism</em> the first volume examines three aspects of trauma and dissociation. Janet first explores catalepsy and analogous states including comparing catalepsy to somnambulism then discusses somnambulism memory and forgetting. Finally Janet considers suggestion amnesia and distraction as well as considering characteristics of suggestible individuals. Janet’s work is an unsurpassed experimental study of human actions in their simplest and most rudimentary forms and a fundamental contribution to our understanding of trauma-related dissociation. </p><p>This seminal work will be of great interest to researchers and students of psychoanalysis philosophy and modernism as well as psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with clients who have experienced trauma. It is accompanied by <em>Subconscious Acts Anesthesias and Psychological Disaggregation </em><i>in </i><em>Psychological Automatism: Partial Automatism.</em></p>