APA Dictionary of Psychology

a group of doctors and students at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris who advanced the hypotheses and research of Jean-Martin Charcot, particularly with regard to his neurological studies of a posited relation between hysteria and hypnotism. Sigmund Freud, who studied through a fellowship under Charcot, was greatly influenced by the Paris Medical School in his early studies and in the direction of his future work.