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- Mesmer was a pseudoscientist. Sadly, what Mesmer did not know is that when his treatment worked, it worked because of the power of suggestion. This power was later recognized as the genuine phenomenon of hypnosis (or mesmerism). It allowed Mesmer to successfully treat people with psychosomatic illnesses – i.e. illnesses rooted in the mind.
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Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician whose system of therapeutics, known as mesmerism, was the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism. Mesmer’s dissertation at the University of Vienna (M.D., 1766), which borrowed heavily from the work of the British physician Richard Mead, suggested.
- Richard Mead
Richard Mead was a leading 18th-century British physician...
- John Elliotson
John Elliotson (born Oct. 29, 1791, Southwark, London,...
- Richard Mead
Franz Anton Mesmer (/ ˈ m ɛ z m ər / MEZ-mər; [1] German:; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called " animal magnetism ", later referred to as mesmerism .
Depending upon whom you read, Mesmer was either a charlatan (e.g., Zilboorg 1941) or a genius ahead of his time (e.g., Alexander and Selesnick 1966). Confirming the former is that Mesmer could be petty, greedy, vindictive, secretive, and, for example, he refused to submit his ideas about animal magnetism to control tests.
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Franz Anton Mesmer, a doctor from the Swabian village of Iznang, was born on 23 May 1734, the third of nine children of a gamekeeper and forest warden to the Archbishop of Constance.
Apr 27, 2017 · Mesmer was an 18th century doctor who developed the theory of animal magnetism (more about that later), as well as a related style of treatment that came to be known as mesmerism. His theories...
T he life and work of Franz Anton Mesmer have given rise to a body of literature that is vast, although of varying interest. Whether the man himself was considered to be a genius or a charlatan, there is no doubt that his work has exercised an enormous influence.
In the late eighteenth century, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) promulgated “animal magnetism” as a pervasive property of nature that could be channeled as an effective therapy for a wide variety of conditions (Fig. 1). His claims of dramatic...
