library - department ii

Here you find ex­tracts from clas­sical pa­pers on an­imal mag­net­ism and hyp­nosis (from 1779 on), il­lus­trat­ing the his­tory of the pre­curs­ors of mod­ern hyp­no­ther­apy.

Please choose a text from the fol­low­ing list:

• Franz Anton Mes­mer: 27 the­or­ems (1779, french)
• Franz Anton Mes­mer: Der Fall des Frl. Paradis (1781, ger­man)
• Marquis de Puységur: Die Ent­deck­ung des “­somn­am­bu­lisme naturel” (1784, french)
• Report of the royal com­mit­tee for the in­vest­ig­a­tion of an­imal magnetism (1784, ger­man)
• Franz Anton Mes­mer: Let­ter to the “­Journal de Par­is” and to “Ben­jamin Franklin” (1784, french)
• Thouret, M.: Recherches et doutes sur le mag­nét­isme animal (1784, french)
• Benjamin Frank­lin: In­tro­duc­tion to the re­port of the royal com­mit­tee for eval­u­ation of the an­imal magnetism (1785, eng­lish)
• Tardy de Mon­travel, A.A.: Journal du traite­ment mag­nétique de la demois­elle N., le­quel a servi de base à l’Es­sai sur la théorie du somn­am­bu­lisme magnétique (1786, french)
• Wienholt, D.A.: Beytrag zu den Er­fahrungen über den thierischen Magnetismus (1787, ger­man)
• Kluge, C.A.F.: Ver­such einer Darstel­lung des an­im­al­is­chen Mag­net­is­mus als Heilmittel (1811, ger­man)
• Deleuze, J. P. F.: In­struc­tion pratique sur le mag­nét­isme animal (1825, french)
• Abbé de Faria: Eine psy­cho­lo­gis­che The­orie zum mag­net­ischen Schlaf (1819, french)
• James Braid: In­tro­duc­tion of the term “hyp­nosis” (1843, eng­lish)
• Esdaile, J.: Mes­mer­ism in In­dia, and Its Prac­tical Ap­plic­a­tion in Sur­gery and Medicine (1846, eng­lish)

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