Author: Franz Anton MesmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Mesmerism
Author: Franz Anton MesmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Mesmerism in Its Relation to Health and Disease, and the Present State of Medicine
Author: William Neilson (mesmerist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Mesmerized
Author: Alison WinterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226902197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Invitation to the Seance1: Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria 2: Animal Magnetism Comes to London 3: Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments 4: Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime 5: The Peripatetic Power of the "New Science" 6: Consultations, Conversaziones, and Institutions 7: The Invention of Anesthesia and the Redefinition of Pain 8: Colonizing Sensations in Victorian India9: Emanations from the Sickroom 10: The Mesmeric Cure of Souls 11: Expertise, Common Sense, and the Territories of Science 12: The Social Body and the Invention of Consensus Conclusion: The Day after the Feast Notes Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Mesmer and Animal Magnetism
Author: Frank A. PattiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A complete biography of Franz Anton Mesmer, including his theory and practice, his influence, and his stormy professional and personal relationships. A source book of 18th century medical history. Fully annotated and indexed.
Credulity
Author: Emily OgdenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653247X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Author: Glenn Alexander MageePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316679357
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Mysticism and esotericism are two intimately related strands of the Western tradition. Despite their close connections, however, scholars tend to treat them separately. Whereas the study of Western mysticism enjoys a long and established history, Western esotericism is a young field. The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism examines both of these traditions together. The volume demonstrates that the roots of esotericism almost always lead back to mystical traditions, while the work of mystics was bound up with esoteric or occult preoccupations. It also shows why mysticism and esotericism must be examined together if either is to be understood fully. Including contributions by leading scholars, this volume features essays on such topics as alchemy, astrology, magic, Neoplatonism, Kabbalism, Renaissance Hermetism, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, numerology, Christian theosophy, spiritualism, and much more. This Handbook serves as both a capstone of contemporary scholarship and a cornerstone of future research.
MESMERIST'S MANUAL OF PHENOMENA AND PRACTICE
Author: GEORGE. BARTHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033377789
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hypnotism, and Magnetism, Mesmerism, Suggestive Therapeutics and Magnetic Healing ..
Author: L W (Lauron William) B De LaurencePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016306102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Notes and Studies in the Philosophy of Animal Magnetism and Spiritualism
Author: John AshburnerPublisher:
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Category : Animal magnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Neurypnology; Or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep Considered in Relation to Animal Magnetism Or Mesmerism and Illustrated by Numerous Cases of Its Successful Application in the Relief and Cure of Disease
Author: James 1795?-1860 Nr2002005871 BraidPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014835512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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