Alterations of personality
The Philosopy of Sleep
Also known as Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State
by Alfred Binet, John Elliotson, James Esdaile & Robert Macnish
- First published:
- 19th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Primary source
706 p. in various pagings ; 24 cm. -- Reprint of works previously published 1834-1846 Includes bibliographical references and index
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics and Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis.
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Hypnotism” and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “mesmeric” in the alternative title, “Hypnotism” in the subject metadata, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).
- “Mesmerism”· via Internet Archive
- “Mesmerism”· via Open Library
- “Hypnotism”· via Open Library
- “mesmeric”· in alternative title
- “Hypnotism”· in subject
- “Mesmerism”· in subject
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Consciousness”. Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the subject metadata.
- “Consciousness”· via Internet Archive
- “Consciousness”· via Open Library
- “Consciousness”· in subject
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Editions
Open Library reports 6 editions; 3 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State: Mesmerism in India | June 30, 1977 | University Publications of America | English |
| No ebook | |
Significant Contributions to the History of Psychology 1750-1920 Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan | June 1977 | Greenwood Pub Group; Washington, D.C. : University Publications of America | English |
| Public | |
Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan | 1896 | D. Appleton and company | English | — | Public |
Subjects
- Mesmerism
- Consciousness
- Suggestive Therapeutics
- Sleep
- tlie
- suggestion
- Therapeutics, Suggestive
- phenomena
- Hypnotism in surgery
- movements
- Personality disorders
- tho
- Anesthetic Hypnosis
- unconscious
- subject
- unconscious person
- alterations
- automatic handwriting
- hysterical
- hysterical patient
- hysterical patients
- insensible hand
- normal ego
- normal life
- Operative Surgical Procedures
- pierre janet
- Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
- second condition
- unconscious movements
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- Open Library work
- Internet Archive
- Open Library work (alias)
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- Open LibraryOL2506183W (opens in a new tab)
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Cataloging notes
- Contributing institution: Internet Archive
- Contributing institution: University of Michigan
- Digitization sponsor: Google
- Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
- Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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- Scanner: station31.cebu.archive.org
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL2506183W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
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