CHARCOT,JEAN,MARTIN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERFACE BETWEEN NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Although much has been written about Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) a s a neurologist and his commitment to the hysterics of the Salpetriere , his influence on modern psychiatric thought has been misunderstood. His contributions range from the diagnosis and understanding of certai n aspects of hysteria, which influenced psychoanalysis, to insights in to the psychopathology of trauma that foreshadow modem concepts of pos t-traumatic stress disorder and somatoform disorders. This article rev iews these aspects in rile context of his contributions as a founder o f modern neurology, neuropathology and proponent of the anatomo-clinic al approach.