Mental Healers: Mesmer, Eddy and Freud

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Cover; Title Page; CONTENTS; Dedication; INTRODUCTION; FRANZ ANTON MESMER; THE PRECURSOR; LIKENESS; THE SPARK; FIRST EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL DOUBTS; MARIA THERESIA PARADIES; PARIS; MESMEROMANIA; THE ACADEMY TAKES ACTION; A RALLY IN MESMER'S DEFENCE; MESMERISM MINUS MESMER; OBLIVION; THE UPSHOT; MARY BAKER EDDY; LIFE AND DOCTRINE; FORTY WASTED YEARS; QUIMBY; THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MIRACLE; PAUL AMONG THE HEATHEN; LIKENESS; THE FIRST STEP; MARY BAKER EDDY'S DOCTRINE; METAMORPHOSIS INTO REVELATION; THE LAST CRISIS; CHRIST AND THE DOLLAR; WITHDRAWAL INTO THE CLOUDS; CRUCIFIXION; THE UPSHOT.;Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and Sigmund Freud—three influential thinkers who travelled very different paths in their search for the crucial link between mind and body. Zweig's brilliant study explores the lives and work of these important figures, raising provocative questions regarding the efficacy and even the morality of their methods. An insight into the minds of three key thinkers who shaped the philosophy of our age, Mental Healers is a wonderfully intriguing and thought-provoking biographical work from a renowned master of the genre. Cover Title Page CONTENTS Dedication INTRODUCTION FRANZ ANTON MESMER THE PRECURSOR LIKENESS THE SPARK FIRST EXPERIMENTS SPECTRAL DOUBTS MARIA THERESIA PARADIES PARIS MESMEROMANIA THE ACADEMY TAKES ACTION A RALLY IN MESMER'S DEFENCE MESMERISM MINUS MESMER OBLIVION THE UPSHOT MARY BAKER EDDY LIFE AND DOCTRINE FORTY WASTED YEARS QUIMBY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MIRACLE PAUL AMONG THE HEATHEN LIKENESS THE FIRST STEP MARY BAKER EDDY'S DOCTRINE METAMORPHOSIS INTO REVELATION THE LAST CRISIS CHRIST AND THE DOLLAR WITHDRAWAL INTO THE CLOUDS CRUCIFIXION THE UPSHOT. SIGMUND FREUDTHE TURN OF THE CENTURY LIKENESS THE NEW TREND THE REALM OF THE UNCONSCIOUS INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS THE TECHNIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS THE WORLD OF SEX WIDER HORIZONS IN OLD AGE THE FRUITFUL IS THE TRUE Also Available from Pushkin Press About the Publisher Copyright.