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
A memoir concerning the fascinating faculty which has been ascribed to the rattle-snake, and other American serpents
Benjamin Smith Barton
1796
A note on hypnotism in the insane
James Hendrie Lloyd
1890
A short sketch of animal magnetism
Physician
1838
A treatise on the phenomena of animal magnetism
M. Loewe
1822
Agnes, or, The possessed
T. S Arthur
1848
An address to the Washington Literary Society, of Washington College, Pa., delivered September 28th, 1852
Alexander Campbell
1852
An essay on human magnetism
George W. Alden
1846
An essay on human magnetism, or, The infant magnetism enrobed in its true panoply
Henry Foster Smith
1844
Analytical report of a series of experiments in mesmeric somniloquism, performed by an association of gentlemen
Daniel Drake
1844
Animal electricity and magnetism demonstrated, by the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion
John professor of animal magnetism Bell, John Bell
1792
Animal magnetism
George Winter
1801
Animal magnetism (mesmerism) and artificial somnambulism
C. Countess de Dominique
1874
Animal magnetism and the associated phenomena, somnambulism, clairvoyance, &c
Edwin Lee
1849
Animal magnetism or mesmerism
William Lang
1844
Antisocial or criminal acts and hypnosis
Paul J. Reiter
1958
Become the dream
Randal Churchill
1997
Cerebral physiology and materialism
W. C. Engledue
1842
Cultivation of personal magnetism
Leroy Berrier
1899
Cultivation of personal magnetism in seven progressive steps
Edmund Shaftesbury
1924
Electricity and magnetism
George Bernard Benedek, Felix Villars
1979
Electricity, magnetism, and animal magnetism
Ellen G Gartrell, American Philosophical Society
1975
Elements of animal magnetism
Charles Morley
1838
Five lectures upon the cause, prevention, and cure of disease, the mysteries and fallacies of the faculty, and upon the origin, design, benefit and phenomena of animal magnetism
E. D. Peirce
1847
Franz Anton Mesmer
Margaret Leland Goldsmith
1934