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
- 1,831
- Earliest
- 1242
- to 2026
- Read free
- 57%
- 1,044 with public full text
- With covers
- 63%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,758
- Metadata match47
- Query match24
- 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
- hypnotism577
- animal magnetism516
- Mesmerism395
- Magnétisme animal340
- Hypnosis335
- Mesmerismus116
- Hypnose110
- Therapeutic use100
- History98
- Parapsychology71
- Suggestive Therapeutics67
- Psychology66
- Magnetic healing65
- Sleepwalking63
- Electronic books54
- Social Sciences54
- Magnétisme51
- Spiritualism51
- Early works to 180048
- Art43
- Philosophy43
- Somnambulism42
- Arts and Humanities40
- Fiction39
Top languages
- French754 · 41%
- English639 · 35%
- German281 · 15%
- Italian40 · 2%
- NOT23 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Franz Anton Mesmer47 in this tradition48 books
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh36 in this tradition71 books
- University of Glasgow. Library18 in this tradition71 books
- Edgar Allan Poe18 in this tradition24 books
- Jules Du Potet de Sennevoy13 in this tradition15 books
- Nicolas Bergasse13 books
- James Braid12 books
- Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach12 books
- France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal10 books
- James Esdaile10 books
- Benjamin Franklin9 in this tradition15 books
- Joseph Philippe François Deleuze9 in this tradition10 books
1,831 books
- Read free
Über Hypnotismus
J. R Minde
1891NOT
- Read free
Über das Verhältniss des Schlafes und des Wachens zum Mesmerismus
Basilius Bodenmüller
1817German
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Über den natürlichen Somnambulismus
Ernst von den Steinen
1881NOT
100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories
Al Sarrantino, Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1993
Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis
Melvin Powers
1948
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Animal magnetism
1838
- Read free
Animal magnetism
1830
Behind the scenes
Yves Brault
1997
Between Death and Life
Dolores Cannon
1993
Clinical and experimental hypnosis in medicine, dentistry, and psychology
William S. Kroger
1963
Complete idiot's guide to hypnosis
Roberta Temes
2000
Conditioned reflex therapy
Andrew Salter
1949
Das Geheimnis des Herzmagneten
Ruediger Schache
2010
Discovering the power of self-hypnosis
Stanley Fisher
1991
Doors to past lives & future lives
Joe H. Slate
2011
Early Magnetism in Its Higher Relations to Humanity
Thomas South
1846
Essentials of hypnosis
Michael D. Yapko
1995
Five Lives Remembered
Dolores Cannon
2009
Franz Anton Mesmer
James Wyckoff
1975
Handbook of Medical and Psychological Hypnosis
Gary Elkins
2016
Handbook of Professional Hypnosis
Harry Arons
1971
Handbook of hypnotic suggestions and metaphors
D. Corydon Hammond
1990
Healing in hypnosis
Milton H. Erickson
1983
How to hypnotize
Bradford Chambers
1957