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Janet's disease
Associated persons:
Pierre Marie Félix Janet
Description:
Janet's term for psychopathic persons with obsessive compulsive disorder. It was an uncommonly used synonym for astenia and neurastenia. Neither of the three terms are longer used.
Bibliography:
- P. Janet:
Les obsessions et la psychasthénie.
2 volumes, Paris, F. Alcan, 1903.
Volume 2 written with Fulgence Raymond.
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