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9780140280401

Hypnotism A History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780140280401

  • ISBN10:

    0140280405

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-06-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary

From Anton Mesmer to modern practice, this enlightening and engaging history explores the practice of hypnotism. Forrest details Mesmer's extraordinary life and the work of subsequent pioneers in this intriguing therapy.

Author Biography

Derek Forrest is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, of the Psychological Society of Ireland and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Foreword xi
Anthony Storr
Author's Preface xv
The Discovery
1(16)
Mesmer in Paris
17(20)
Year of Crisis
37(20)
Aftermath
57(13)
Somnambulism
70(14)
Minor Magnetists
84(26)
Vision Without Eyes
110(15)
The Spread of Magnetism to Britain and the USA
125(11)
Elliotson and the Okey Sisters
136(33)
The Mesmeric Campaign
169(24)
Braid and Hypnotism
193(20)
Charcot at the Salpetriere
213(16)
The Triumph of Suggestion
229(25)
The Twentieth Century
254(24)
Notes and references 278(44)
Index 322

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