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The list French hypnotists includes Jean-Martin Charcot, Abbé Faria, Pierre Janet, Paul Joire and Henri-Étienne Beaunis. The list consists of 17 members.
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    Jean-Martin Charcot
    French neurologist
    Jean-Martin Charcot
    Overview: Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He is best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, in particular his work ...
    Date of birth: 29 November 1825
    Date of death: 16 August 1893
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Other
    Gender: Male
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    Charcot family 3T
    19th-century French physicians 185T
    Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 264T
  • 2.

    Abbé Faria
    Goan Catholic monk and pioneer of hypnotism
    Abbé Faria
    Overview: Abbé Faria (Portuguese: Abade Faria), or Abbé (Abbot) José Custódio de Faria, (31 May 1756 – 20 September 1819), was a Goan Catholic monk who was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism ...
    Date of birth: 30 May 1746
    Date of death: 20 September 1819
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
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    Scholars from Goa 27T
    Goan Catholics 36T
    People of Goan descent 138T
  • 3.

    Paul Joire
    French parapsychologist
    Paul Joire
    Overview: Paul Joire (1856–1930) was a leading French parapsychologist, professor at the "Psycho-physiological Institute of France" and president of the "Societé Universelle d'Études Psychiques" ("Universal Society ...
    Date of birth: 1856
    Date of death: 1930
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
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    French writers on paranormal topics 10T
    Parapsychologists 426T
    Spiritualism 72T
  • 4.

    Pierre Janet
    French psychologist
    Pierre Janet
    Overview: Pierre Marie Félix Janet (30 May 1859 – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, physician, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
    Date of birth: 30 May 1859
    Date of death: 24 February 1947
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Psychologist
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    19th-century psychologists 19T
    Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 979T
    20th-century psychologists 972T
  • 5.

    Gérard Encausse
    French occult writer
    Gérard Encausse
    Overview: Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse (July 13, 1865 – 25 October 1916), whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was a Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern ...
    Date of birth: 13 July 1865
    Date of death: 25 October 1916
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
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    Tarotologists 24T
    Members of Ordo Templi Orientis 25T
    French male poets 774T
  • 6.

    Emile Coue
    French psychologist and pharmacist
    Emile Coue
    Overview: Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (26 February 1857 – 2 July 1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion ...
    Date of birth: 26 February 1857
    Date of death: 2 July 1926
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Psychologist
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    French pharmacists 59T
    People from Troyes 114T
    French psychologists 81T
  • 7.
    Amédée Dumontpallier
    Overview: Victor Alphonse Amédée Dumontpallier (8 March 1826, Honfleur – 13 January 1899, Paris) was a French gynecologist best known for his studies of hypnotism and metalloscopy (metallotherapy).
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    Henri Durville
    Overview: Henri Durville (1887–1963), son of Hector Durville professed in his school which he called “the principles of dynamic physics” in which he showed the difference between animal magnetism and hypnotism ...
    Nationality: French
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    20th-century occultists 24T
    French occultists 35T
    1963 deaths 4,136T
  • 9.
    Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
    Overview: Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault (1823-1904) was a French physician and is considered the father of modern hypnotherapy. Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault was born in Favières, a small town in the Lorraine region of ...
    Date of birth: 1823
    Date of death: 1904
    Age: 80 (age at death)
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    1823 births 1,628T
    People from Meurthe-et-Moselle 97T
    1904 deaths 1,862T
  • 10.

    Henri-Étienne Beaunis
    French psychologist
    Henri-Étienne Beaunis
    Overview: Henri-Étienne Beaunis (2 August 1830 – 20 July 1921) was a French physiologist and psychologist. He defended the thesis of the Nancy School in the field of hypnosis. He is known for his works on anatomy ...
    Date of birth: 1830
    Date of death: 1921
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Psychologist
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    University of Lorraine faculty 12T
    Nancy-Université faculty 39T
    People from Amboise 16T
  • 11.
    Etienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers
    Overview: Étienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers (1755–1841) was a French magnetizer who was an early practitioner of mesmerism as a scientific discipline.
    Date of birth: 1755
    Date of death: 1841
    Age: 85 (age at death)
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    18th-century French people 451T
    1755 births 590T
    1841 deaths 686T
  • 12.

    Hippolyte Bernheim
    French physician and neurologist (1840–1919)
    Hippolyte Bernheim
    Overview: Hippolyte Bernheim (17 April 1840, in Mulhouse – 2 February 1919, in Paris) was a French physician and neurologist, born at Mülhausen, Alsace. He is chiefly known for his theory of suggestibility in r ...
    Date of birth: 1840
    Date of death: 1919
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
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    French neurologists 71T
    University of Strasbourg alumni 289T
    French physicians 390T
  • 13.

    Charles Lafontaine
    19th-century French showman known for demonstrations of animal magnetism
    Charles Lafontaine
    Overview: Charles Lafontaine (1803 – 1892) was an early French Magnetizer.
    Date of birth: 1803
    Date of death: 1892
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: Swiss
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    Animal magnetism 9T
    People from Vendôme 26T
    1803 births 1,174T
  • 14.

    Charles Richet
    French physiologist
    Charles Richet
    Overview: Prof Charles Robert Richet (25 August 1850 – 4 December 1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France known for his pioneering work in immunology. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
    Date of birth: 25 August 1850
    Date of death: 4 December 1935
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
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    White supremacists 58T
    Corresponding Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences 295T
    French writers on paranormal topics 10T
  • 15.

    Charles Poyen
    19th-century French hypnotist
    Overview: Charles Poyen (died 1844) was a French mesmerist or magnetizer (a practitioner of a practice that would later inspire hypnotism). Mesmerism was named after Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician who argued ...
    Date of death: 1844
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    Jules Janet
    French physician
    Overview: Jules Janet (22 December 1861 – 1945) was a French physician, psychologist and psychotherapist, best known today for his clinical contributions to psychological trauma as the cause of hysteria, a view ...
    Date of birth: 22 December 1861
    Date of death: 1945
    Age: 83 (age at death)
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    Edgar Bérillon
    French psychiatrist (1859-1948)
    Edgar Bérillon
    Overview: Edgar Bérillon (23 May 1859, Saint-Fargeau – 6 March 1948) was a French psychiatrist known for his research of hypnosis.
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