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PSYCHOLOGIST

Émile Coué

1857 - 1926

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Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (French: [emil kue də la ʃɑtɛɲʁɛ]; 26 February 1857 – 2 July 1926) was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. "It was in no small measure [Coué's] wholehearted devotion to a self-imposed task that enabled him, in less than a quarter of a century, to rise from obscurity to the position of the world’s most famous psychological exponent.""Indeed, one might truly say that Coué sidetracked inefficient hypnotism [mistakenly based upon supposed operator dominance over a subject], and paved the way for the efficient, and truly scientific." — J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Coué has received more than 542,532 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Émile Coué is the 110th most popular psychologist (down from 107th in 2019), the 1,748th most popular biography from France (down from 1,666th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Émile Coué ranks 110 out of 183Before him are Clark L. Hull, Heinz Kohut, Rudolf Arnheim, Édouard Claparède, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Carol Gilligan. After him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Frederic Bartlett, Serge Moscovici, George Kelly, Ovide Decroly, and Jon Kabat-Zinn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Émile Coué ranks 47Before him are Theodor Escherich, Cécile Chaminade, Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Theodor Kittelsen, Ida Tarbell, and Mikhail Alekseyev. After him are Christian Michelsen, Cyril Genik, Williamina Fleming, Le Pétomane, Fergus Suter, and Alfred Loisy. Among people deceased in 1926, Émile Coué ranks 36Before him are Ellen Key, Friedrich von Wieser, Knut Wicksell, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Ugyen Wangchuck, and Théo van Rysselberghe. After him are John Louis Emil Dreyer, Alphonse Borrelly, Ye Wanyong, Robert Todd Lincoln, Annie Oakley, and Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Coué ranks 1,748 out of 6,011Before him are Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Robert Desnos (1900), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Philippe Leroy (1930), and Anne Desclos (1907). After him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), André Jolivet (1905), Jean Djorkaeff (1939), Anna de Noailles (1876), Philibert de l'Orme (1514), and Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine (1608).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In France

Among psychologists born in France, Émile Coué ranks 7Before him are Jacques Lacan (1901), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Alfred Binet (1857), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Pierre Janet (1859), and Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839). After him are Henri Wallon (1879), Françoise Dolto (1908), Jean Laplanche (1924), and Boris Cyrulnik (1937).