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
Seltsame Geschichten (Balloon-Hoax / Descent into the Maelström / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1890German
Yo sí creo en la hipnosis
Alberto E. Cobian Mena
1997Spanish
Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality
Jake Poller
2019
Die Geschichte der Seele
Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert
2011
Domestic Individualism
Gillian Brown
1991
Fits, Trances, and Visions
Ann Taves
2000
Frankenstein's Science
Jane Goodall
2016
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
2011
Harriet Martineau: Selected Letters
Harriet Martineau
1991
Hypnosis and suggestibility
Clark Leonard Hull
1933
Hypnotism
Walter B. Gibson
1970
Hypnotism revealed
Melvin Powers
1956
Mind Cure
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
2019
Passive Constitutions or 7 1/2 Times Bartleby
Branka Arsić
2007
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew
2008
Self hypnotism
Leslie M. LeCron
1970
Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses
Kristin Boudreau
2002
Techniques of hypnotherapy
Leslie M. LeCron
1961
The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob
George Eliot
2009
The Sixth Sense Reader
David Howes
2024
The collected letters of Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau, Deborah Anna Logan
2007
The dictionary of nineteenth-century British scientists
Bernard Lightman, John Brooke
2004
These Will Chill You
Lee Wright, Richard G. Sheehan, Cornell Woolrich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Fielding Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, J. P. Brennan, Stanley Ellin, D. K. Broster, Jane Rice, William F. Nolan, Harold R. Daniels, Theodore Sturgeon, Irvin Faust
1967
Transpersonal hypnosis : gateway to body, mind, and spirit
Eric Leskowitz
2000