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Who was the first to argue that hysteria did not have a physical basis?

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Pierre Marie FĂ©lix Janet was the first to argue that hysteria did not have a physical basis, Janet is a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. One of the founding fathers of psychology. Janet established a developmental model of the mind in terms of a hierarchy of nine "tendencies" of increasingly complex organisational levels.

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