Tradition 26 of 33
Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis
Animal magnetism, mesmerism, suggestion, and historical borders between trance science and occult practice.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 863
- Earliest
- 1242
- to 2026
- Read free
- 42%
- 361 with public full text
- With covers
- 53%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match807
- Metadata match41
- Query match13
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- animal magnetism193
- hypnotism193
- Mesmerism181
- Hypnosis137
- Mesmerismus116
- Magnétisme animal99
- History70
- Electronic books53
- Social Sciences53
- Therapeutic use48
- Psychology46
- Art41
- Hypnose40
- Arts and Humanities39
- Philosophy39
- Literature29
- Magnetismus27
- Spiritualism26
- Fiction25
- Hypnotism, therapeutic use24
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices24
- Parapsychology23
- Magnetyzm zwierzęcy21
- Magnétothérapie21
Top languages
- English402 · 47%
- French175 · 20%
- German168 · 19%
- Italian27 · 3%
- NOT23 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Franz Anton Mesmer32 books
- Edgar Allan Poe9 in this tradition15 books
- Benjamin Franklin7 in this tradition8 books
- James Esdaile7 books
- Dolores Cannon6 in this tradition15 books
- E. T. A. Hoffmann6 in this tradition7 books
- Jean Sylvain Bailly5 in this tradition7 books
- Joseph Philippe François Deleuze5 in this tradition6 books
- Milton H. Erickson5 in this tradition6 books
- Académie nationale de médecine5 books
- Herbert Mayo5 books
- Joseph W Haddock5 books
863 books
An Attempt to Explain Some of the Wonders and Mysteries of Mesmerism, Biology, and Clairvoyance
Hudson Captain, Hugh Hudson
2010
Animal magnetism
France Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal, Benjamin Franklin, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1837
Animal magnetism, or, psycodunamy
Théodore Leger
1846
Bedazzled : mesmerism and Hawthorne
Ann Gish Shaw
1992
Catalogue of the extensive library of the late J.C. Colquhoun, Esq. ... comprising a valuable collection of uncommon works on animal magnetism, witchcraft, &c. Also the valuable library of the late John Goodall, Esq. ... together with the library of a gentleman recently deceased ... which will be sold ... on ... December 19, 1854, etc
Thomas Nisbet
1854
Dods, John Bovee (1795-1872), amateur physician and popular author and lecturer on mesmerism and Spiritualism
Bret E. Carroll
2000
Hand-book of curative mesmerism
Hand-Book
1854
Human magnetism or how to hypnotise : a practical handbook for students of mesmerism
James T. Coates
1901
Hypnotism and telepathy, or Life, man, nature
Mesrob Aram Yeshilian, Harry Houdini Collection
1917
Hypnotism: Including a study of the chief points of psycho-therapeutics and occultism, 4th ed.
Albert Moll
1913
Maxims on animal magnetism
Franz Anton Mesmer
1958
Mesmer and animal magnetism
Iago Galdston
1948
Mesmerism : a translation of the original scientific and medical writings of F.A. Mesmer
Franz Anton Mesmer, George J. Bloch
1980
Mesmerism and its realities further proved by illustrations of its curative powers in disease as well as by its development of some extraordinary magnetic phenomena in the human body
A. C Tweedie
1857
Mesmerism considered (in connexion with personal responsibility)
Mesmerism
1852
Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease, and the present state of medicine
William Neilson
1855
Mesmerism; its history, phenomena and practice; with reports of cases developed in Scotland
William Lang
1843
Numerous cases of surgical operations without pain in the mesmeric state . Mesmerism in India . The philosophy of sleep
John Elliotson, James Esdaile, Robert Macnish
1977
Of spiritism
John William Harris
1913
On the theory of imagination, as explaining the phenomena of mesmerism; and on money challenges in clairvoyance
William Gregory
1852
Popular Superstitions: And the Truths Contained Therein, with an Account of Mesmerism
Herbert Mayo
2010
Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and other commissioners, charged by the King of France, with the examination of the animal magnetism as now practised at Paris
Benjamin Franklin, Royal Society of Medicine, France Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal
1785
Report on the magnetical experiments made by the commission of the Royal Academy of Medicine, of Paris
Académie nationale de médecine, William James, M Husson, Charles Poyen, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1836
Reports of the experiments on animal magnetism, made by a committee of the medical section of the French Royal Academy of Sciences
John Campbell Colquhoun
1833