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Mesmerism and Christian Science

A Short History of Mental Healing

by Frank Podmore

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English
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For most of his life a clerk in the post office, Frank Podmore (1856–1910) was a prolific author on psychical research. As an undergraduate Podmore became interested in spiritualism, and he joined the British National Association of Spiritualists. Eventually disillusioned by that society, Podmore co-founded several organisations: the Progressive Association (in 1882); the Fellowship of the New Life (1883); and, spurred by his desire to see political change, the Fabian Society (1884). Podmore's membership in the Society for Psychical Research influenced his activities and interests, and he spent the next twenty years investigating and writing on psychical phenomena. Podmore's two-volume Modern Spiritualism (also reissued in this series) is a source for this 1909 work, which 'constituted the most scholarly history of mesmerism and its offshoots to that date', according to one reviewer. This work will interest historians of science and medicine, and scholars of Victorian religious movements.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Parapsychology and psychical research, Psychic healing, auras, and subtle energy, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Retained metadata contains “Psychical research” in the description.

    • “Psychical research”· in description
  • Psychic healing, auras, and subtle energy

    Retained metadata contains “Mental healing” in the subtitle, “Mental healing” in the subject metadata, and “Mental healing” in the edition subtitle.

    • “Mental healing”· in subtitle
    • “Mental healing”· in subject
    • “Mental healing”· in edition subtitle
  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, openalex, and openlibrary matched “mesmerism” and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the title, “Mesmerism” in the description, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Mesmerism”· via Open Library
    • “Mesmerism”· in title
    • “Mesmerism”· in description
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A Short History of Mental Healing

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2011-05-19Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press eBooksEnglish
  • 9780511973215
  • 9781108072465
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a short history of mental healing

Open Library record

1909G. W. JacobsEnglish—Public digitized item

A Short History of Mental Healing

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2019Westphalia PressEnglish
  • 9781633917620
  • 1633917622
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  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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