Tradition 26 of 33
Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis
Animal magnetism, mesmerism, suggestion, and historical borders between trance science and occult practice.
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- 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
De magnetische geest
Joost Vijselaar
1999Dutch
Die Bremer Magnetiseure
Tilman Hannemann
2007German
Entretiens sur le magnétisme animal et le sommeil magnétique dit somnambulisme
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1823French
Essai sur les probabilités du somnambulisme magnétique
Fournel M, Jean-François Fournel, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1785French
Histoire de la guérison d'une jeune personne, par le magnétisme animal, produit par la nature elle-même
Friedrich Karl von Strombeck, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1814French
Il magnetismo animale considerato secondo le leggi della natura e principalmente diretto alla cura delle malattie
Francesco Guidi
1860Italian
Journal du traitement magnétique de Madame B....
T. D. M, Tardy de Montravel
1787French
Le magnétisme a la recherche d'une position sociale
Antoine J. Gérard, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1866French
Le magnétisme opposé à la médecine
Jules Dupotet
1840French
Les phénomènes de la folie
Gabriel Pélin, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1866French
Lettres de M. Mesmer, a messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris, et a M. Franklin
Franz Anton Mesmer
1784French
Medizin, Okkultismus und Parapsychologie im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Barbara Wolf-Braun
2009German
Suite des Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire et l'établissement du magnetisme animal
A.-M.-J Chastenet marquis de Puységur, A.-M.-Armand-Marie-Jacques Chastenet de Puységur, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1785French
Théorie positive des phénomènes étudiés sous la dénomination de magnétisme animal
Louis Auguste Segond, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1854French
Thérapeutique du magnétisme et du somnambulisme appropriée aux maladies les plus communes
Louis Alphonse Cahagnet
1883French
Wahrnehmungen einer Seherin
Seherin, Johann Friedrich von Meyer
1827German
Somnolism & psycheism; or, the science of the soul and the phenomena of nervation, as revealed by vital magnetism or mesmerism, considered physiologically and philosophically: With notes of mesmeric and psychical experience, 2nd ed.
Joseph W. Haddock
1851
"Davis revelations" revealed
George Bush, Benjamin Fiske Barrett, Andrew Jackson Davis
1847
"Popular" mesmerism
A. C. Maxfield
1900
A contribution to the study of hysteria and hypnosis
Morton Prince
1898
A conversazione on Mesmerism and Phreno-mesmerism, between a mesmerist and an anti-mesmerist
Thomas Adair
1845
A law case exhibiting the most extraordinary developments peculia to modern times, arising from an implicit obedience to the dictates of mesmeric clairvoyance, as related by a Mormon prophet
Harriet Smith
1848
A letter on animal magnetism
William Henry Beecher
1844
A letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, on the nature, government and tendency of Miss Sellon's establishment at Devonport, called the "Sisters of Mercy."
W. G. Cookesley
1853