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Charcot: Buddhist Leanings?

Author(s) -

Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive,

Carlos Henrique Ferreira Camargo,

Olivier Walusinski,

Andrew Lees

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

european neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1421-9913

pISSN - 0014-3022

DOI - 10.1159/000514430

Subject(s) - irony , skepticism , buddhism , psychoanalysis , psychology , neurology , philosophy , psychiatry , epistemology , linguistics , theology

Jean-Martin Charcot, considered the father of modern neurology, had a complex personality featuring well-defined characteristics of introversion, competitiveness, irony, and skepticism. While biographers have described him as Republican, anticlerical, and agnostic, the literature also presents evidence that he came to admire Buddhism toward the end of his life; Charcot's involvement with numerous patients suffering from incurable and insidious neurological diseases may have contributed to this change in attitude.

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