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"Because of his standing in the medical world, D'Eslon gave Mesmer credibility among the intelligentsia of Paris. This book was his major opus on animal magnetism in which he describes his first exposure to animal magnetism and how he became convinced of its efficacy. He adheres to all of Mesmer's teachings about the nature of the phenomenon, although he does not emphasize the doctrine of a magnetic fluid. D'Eslon stresses the importance of the fact that animal magnetism is effective as a treatment for illness. He knew this from his own experience, having been cured by Mesmer of a life-long ailment [Crabtree].
Caillet 2933; Tinterow Catalog p. 39; Crabtree #243.
Crabtree #243: His "first work on animal magnetism and one of the most important ever written on the subject." Tinterow (1970) p. 575: "… indispensable for a library on the subject, the work was even accepted by the opponents of mesmerism. The first volume deals with the history and practice of magnetism; the second volume contains analyses of, and extracts from, the most important works on magnetism published before 1813 … with a number of valuable notes."
Caillet 2933. Tinterow Catalog p. 39. Crabtree 1988 #243: His "first work on animal magnetism and one of the most important ever written on the subject." Tinterow (1970) p. 575: "… indispensable for a library on the subject, the work was even accepted by the opponents of mesmerism. The first volume deals with the history and practice of magnetism; the second volume contains analyses of, and extracts from, the most important works on magnetism published before 1813 … with a number of valuable notes."
Tinterow (1970) p. 576. Crabtree 1988 #320: "One of the most popular manuals for the practice of animal magnetism ever written. It went through at least four editions in thirty years in France and was translated into a number of foreign languages." A scholar of great repute, Deleuze was librarian to the French Natural History Society.
Chapters by Dorcus, Frank J. Kirkner, Milton V. Kline, George F. Kuehner, Frank A. Pattie, Theodore R. Sarbin, and G. Wilson Shaffer. Created as a textbook for the Division of Postgraduate Medical Education, Extension Division, at UCLA.
An account of Du Potet's experiments with Husson and an important book "that marks the beginning of a series of events that led to the establishment of a new French commission to investigate animal magentism, which eventually produced a positive report" [Crabtree 1988 #302].
Mostly translated by Jelliffe's wife.
Easily the most important and widely read early book on medical psychotherapy published in America. "One of the most systematic of the attempts to treat neurotic disorders [rationally] was the persuasion therapy of Paul Charles Dubois, who was professor of neuropathology at Bern. Dubois had been strongly influenced by Heinroth and believed that most mental disturbances have psychological causes. He emphasized that psychological functions have a physiological substratum: psychological function is 'a special function of the brain' that cannot be described in physiological terms but can be influenced by psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, to be effective, should be rational: the physician's task was to convince the patient that his neurotic feelings, thoughts, and behavior were irrational. Dubois' method was another form of Pinel's moral treatment and amounted to reeducation according to reason and accepted moral principles" [Alexander & Selesnick's History of Psychiatry, pp. 174-175].
Actually mostly translated by Jelliffe's wife (as acknowledged in the translators' preface. "Sixth edition" here probably means the corrected sixth printing, since the pagination of the main text is identical with the 1905 first edition. Dubois did add a new 11 page preface to this printing, though.
Easily the most important and widely read early book on medical psychotherapy published in both Europe and America. "One of the most systematic of the attempts to treat neurotic disorders [rationally] was the persuasion therapy of Paul Charles Dubois, who was professor of neuropathology at Bern. Dubois had been strongly influenced by Heinroth and believed that most mental disturbances have psychological causes. He emphasized that psychological functions have a physiological substratum: psychological function is 'a special function of the brain' that cannot be described in physiological terms but can be influenced by psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, to be effective, should be rational: the physician's task was to convince the patient that his neurotic feelings, thoughts, and behavior were irrational. Dubois' method was another form of Pinel's moral treatment and amounted to reeducation according to reason and accepted moral principles" [Alexander & Selesnick's History of Psychiatry, pp. 174-175].
Norman Catalog 658 (this copy). "In Bern, the neurologist Paul Dubois, an autodidact in psychiatry, developed a psychotherapeutic method called persuasion, which became widely used, and he also clarified the concept of psychoneurosis" [Howells, p. 253].Dubois' book was a key text in the early psychotherapy movement. Jelliffe & White's translation came out the same year as the second French edition. "One of the most systematic of the attempts to treat neurotic disorders [rationally] was the persuasion therapy of Paul Charles Dubois, who was professor of neuropathology at Bern. Dubois had been strongly influenced by Heinroth and believed that most mental disturbances have psychological causes. He emphasized that psychological functions have a physiological substratum: psychological function is 'a special function of the brain' that cannot be described in physiological terms but can be influenced by psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, to be effective, should be rational: the physician's task was to convince the patient that his neurotic feelings, thoughts, and behavior were irrational. Dubois' method was another form of Pinel's moral treatment and amounted to reeducation according to reason and accepted moral principles" [Alexander & Selesnick's History of Psychiatry, pp. 174-175].
Crabtree 1988 #740.
One of the leading mid-19th century experts on animal magnetism, Durand de Gros introduced Braid's work to the French. "Durand, a physiologist who had a special interest in how the body affects states of consciousness, speculates on a vital force that affects the nervous system and on the relationship between conscious and unconscious acts" [Crabtree].
Crabtree 258; Gauld History of Hypnotism, p. 144; not in Wellcome. A German physician and philosopher who was professor of philosophy at Tübingen and both a follower and critic of Schelling, Eschenmayer edited the Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus (1817-1824). Following in the footsteps of Kluge he wrote two major books describing his animal magnetic practices and mystical concerns: this work and Mysterien des innern Lebens (1830).Eschenmayer's "writings on animal magnetism contain much that is derived from Schelling, but also elements from sources as diverse as Paracelsus, Stahl, and Reil. Central to Eschenmayer's thnking are the notions of an 'organic ether', concentrated especially in the brain and nervous system, and of polarities in the nervous system, the brain being usually positive, the ganglion system negative, and the sphere of indifference somewhere between" [Gauld, p. 144]. "Influenced by the nature philosophy of Schelling, Eschenmayer had a special interest in the ancient occult traditions. Here, as well as in later works, he seeks out the parallels between those traditions and the contemporary phenomena of animal magnetism" [Crabtree].
"When 'turning tables' arrived in France from America around 1853, Figuier became convinced that it was necessary to know the historical background of such phenomena in order to judge their objectivity. The result was this work, divided into the following sections: Volume 1: the history of the epidemic possessions of Loudun and the Jansenist convulsionaries; Volume 2: the history of the divining rod and the Protestant prophets; Volume 3: the history of animal magnetism; Volume 4: the history of table turning and spiritism. Volume 3 is one of the early histories of animal magnetism. Volumes 2 and 4 give a good historical background for phenomena which began to be studied by psychical researchers some ten years later" [Crabtree 1988 #822].
Crabtree 1988 #355; Caillet #4059. An important source work for the history of hypnotism. This second report, conducted nearly 50 years after the first, took a much friendlier view of mesmerism, which helped make it study again respectable.
Crabtree 1988 #355; Caillet #4059.
By far the best history. Indispensable for anyone serious about the subject.
A Scottish physician and chemist, Gregory translated his teacher, Liebig's works as well as Reichenbach's odic books into English. His only book on hypnotism, Letters was widely read and well received. Its scientific, albeit credulous, approach to the paranormal phenomena attendant to hypnotism prefigures the more serious work by Gurney, Podmore, & Myers soon to come.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #309: "One of a number of books by Hénin de Cuvillers consisting of selections from his Archives du magnétisme animal… This work concentrates on certain mystical aspects of the doctrine of animal magnetism, considered by the author to be embodied in the writings of many religious and spiritual writers over the centuries. The last forty pages of the book give a concise summary of the views of the author on animal magnetism and its history since Mesmer".
OCLC records 2 copies of the 1817 Royez version (U Texas Medical & 1 in Germany) and 2 of the 1817 Agasse version (NLM & Amer. Philos. Soc.), but none of this 1818 printing. Caillet #5126; Crabtree #275. Attempts to explain mesmeric theory to women, as the subtitle of the 1817 Agasse version states: "où l'on explique aux dames ses principes naturels, pour le salut de leurs familles; et aux sages de tous les pays, ses causes et ses effets, comme un bienfait de la nature qu'ils sont invités à répandre avec les précautions convenables, et d'après lesquelles plusieurs rois de l'Europe en ont encouragé l'usage dans leurs états.""Hervier, an eary disciple of Mesmer, had been cured of a serious illness by animal magnetism. He strongly supported Mesmer in the early years in Paris …" [Crabtree].
GM-5 4976.1; Norman Catalog 1154; Crabtree 1235; Heirs of Hippocrates 2228; Ellenberger Discovery of the Unconscious p. 339 & 358-364; Wozniak Mind & Body pp. 29-30 & 61. The book that popularized Janet's term "subconscious," first introduced in a paper he wrote in 1888.
- Janet's second doctoral dissertation (preceded by his unpublished dissertation in Latin on Bacon, also 1889) and his first full-length book, this is the Ur-text for dissociation theory and a landmark in the history of hypnotism, abnormal psychology, psychopathology, and the mind-body relationship. Expanding on research he had reported in three important papers published 1886-1888 in the Revue Philosophique, Janet here "examines those human acts which, while bearing the earmarks of intelligence, yet bypass the will and escape conscious awareness. Janet calls these acts 'psychological automatisms'" [Crabtree]. Dividing such abnormal mental states into total and partial automatisms, with the former involving the whole personality and the latter only part of the personality split from awareness, "Janet employed automatic writing and hypnosis to identify the traumatic origins and explore the nature of automatism. Syncope, catalepsy, and artificial somnambulism with post-hypnotic amnesia and memory for prior hypnotic states were analyzed as total automatisms. Multiple personalities, which Janet called 'successive existences,' partial catalepsy, absent-mindedness, phenomena of automatic writing, post-hypnotic suggestion, use of the divining rod, mediumistic trance, obsessions, fixed ideas, and the experience of possession were treated as partial automatisms."
- "Most importantly, Janet brought all of these phenomena together within an analytic framework that emphasized the ideomotor relationship between consciousness and action, employed a dynamic metaphor of psychic force and weakness, and stressed the concept of 'field of consciousness' and its narrowing as a result of depletion of psychic force. Within this framework, Janet analyzed the peculiar fixation of the patient on the therapist in rapport in terms of the distortion of the patient's perception, and related hysterical symptomatology to the autonomous power of 'idées fixes' split off from the conscious personality and submerged in the subconscious. Although careful to avoid direct discussion of the therapeutic implications of his work in a non-medical dissertation, Janet laid the foundations for his own and Freud's later therapeutic approaches through his demonstration of the origins of splitting in psychic traumas in the patient's past history" [Wozniak pp. 29-30].
Crabtree 1988 #1557: "An important work on subconsious phenomena and the nature of the subconscious. Criticizing the notion of the 'subliminal self' proposed by Myers to account for the same set of mental phenomena, Jastrow sees it as a natural function that is affected by experience much like the conscious mind."
Grinstein 17555. Crabtree 1988 #1727: "An historical treatment serves as a backdrop to Kaplan's analysis of the work of Charcot, Benedikt, Freud…"
Crabtree 1988 1212; Norman Catalog 1239 (this copy). Krafft-Ebing claimed to have produced burn marks, blisters, and a lowered temperature in his hypnotized subject.
Crabtree 1988 1212.
Reports on his hypnotic experiments with a single female patient in 1893. Includes 3 pages of her signature rendered when Krafft-Ebing suggested that she was different ages.
Anthologizes 18 papers.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #1576 (citing the 2nd Italian edition of 1907). Translated from the 2nd Italian edition.
OCLC records two copies: Univ Michigan & Wellcome. Apparently Lifschitz was Russian.
OCLC records 6 copies: NY Acad. of Med., Univ. of Calif. Riverside, Brandeis, Harvard, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, & Waseda University.
OCLC records 6 copies: NY Acad. of Med., Univ. of Calif. Riverside, Brandeis, Harvard, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, & Waseda University.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #1472.
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