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
Report of three lectures in defence of neurology, against charges recently adduced by Rev. N.L. Rice, D. D.
Joseph R Buchanan
1848
Report on the magnetical experiments made by the commission of the Royal Academy of Medicine, of Paris, read in the meetings of June 21 and 28, 1831
Académie de médecine
1836
Report upon the phenomena of clairvoyance
Edwin Lee
1843
Satanic agency and mesmerism
Hugh McNeile
1842
Somnambulism
Arthur L. Webb
1899
Startling narrative
William L. Stone
1838
Supplement to A memoir concerning the fascinating faculty which has been ascribed to the rattle-snake, and other American serpents
Benjamin Smith Barton
1800
Surgical operations during hypnotic sleep
Arthur MacDonald
1899
The Phreno-magnet and mirror of nature
Spencer T. Hall
1843
The animal spirit doctrine and the origins of neurophysiology
C.U.M. Smith
2012
The art of hypnotic regression therapy
C. Roy Hunter, Bruce N. Eimer
2012
The covert enlightenment
Al Gabay, Alfred J. Gabay
2005
The cultivation of personal magnetism
Edmund Shaftesbury
1895
The educational uses of hypnotism
R. Osgood Mason
1896
The fallacy of phreno-magnetism detected and exposed
John Campbell Colquhoun
1843
The introduction of mesmerism, as an anaesthtetic and curative agent, into the hospitals of India
James Esdaile
1852
The lectures of J.B. de Mainauduc, M.D
John Boniot De Mainauduc
1798
The mystery of animal magnetism revealed to the world
Samuel Stearns
1791
The philosophy of mesmerism, or, Animal magnetism
K. Dickerson
1843
The secrets of clairvoyance revealed
McManus-Young Collection
1900
The secrets of clairvoyance!!, and how to become an operator
M. Young
1884
The unison of the conscious force ..
Solomon jr Heydenfeldt
1891
The use of hypnotism to the first degree, as a means of modifying or of completely eliminating a fixed idea
Russell Sturgis
1894
Thought reading and kindred subjects
James H. Hume
1886