Franz Anton Mesmer (/ˈmɛzmər/ MEZ-mər; German: [ˈmɛsmɐ]; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized...
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Alan Rickman as Franz Anton Mesmer and depicts his radical new ways as a pioneering physician. In 18th century Vienna, Franz Anton Mesmer believes he is...
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Body of light (section Franz Anton Mesmer)
into light, connecting this idea with the 'subtle body' of alchemy. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) borrowed from Newton's more occult theories with the intention...
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History of hypnosis (section Franz Anton Mesmer)
doctor from Vienna named Franz Anton Mesmer. Western scientists first became involved in hypnosis around 1770, when Franz Mesmer (1734–1815), a physician...
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magnetism, also known as mesmerism, is a theory invented by German doctor Franz Mesmer in the 18th century. It posits the existence of an invisible natural...
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Mesmer may refer to: Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), German doctor who postulated Animal magnetism, and for whom Mesmerism is named Gustav Mesmer, inventor...
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Sinclair / Natalie's husband 1992 Bob Roberts Lukas Hart III 1994 Mesmer Franz Anton Mesmer 1995 An Awfully Big Adventure P. L. O'Hara Sense and Sensibility...
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influenced by Roman republican portraits, represents the well-known doctor Franz Anton Mesmer. At about the same time, in 1770-72 Messerschmidt began to work on...
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lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1988 and is a distant relative of Franz Anton Mesmer, proponent of animal magnetism (or mesmerism) and Otto Messmer, the...
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Henri F. Ellenberger, in which the author discusses such figures as Franz Anton Mesmer, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Alfred Adler, and Carl Jung. The book...
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the country" at that time. Alexander Gurwitsch Animal magnetism of Franz Anton Mesmer Energy (spiritual) Energy medicine Fringe science Integratron List...
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Dantinne John Elliotson George Estabrooks Abbé Faria Ainslie Meares Franz Anton Mesmer Julian Ochorowicz Charles Lloyd Tuckey Otto Georg Wetterstrand Etzel...
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anatomist Franz Joseph Gall. Other popular treatments included physiognomy—the study of the shape of the face—and mesmerism, developed by Franz Anton Mesmer—designed...
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playing it, and even Marie Antoinette took lessons as a child from Franz Anton Mesmer.[citation needed] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his 1791 K. 617 and...
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villa known as Fürstenhäusle. The famous eighteenth-century doctor Franz Anton Mesmer (from whose name the verb "to mesmerize" derives) died in 1815 in...
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hypnotism. Hénin de Cuvillers was a follower of Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815). However, unlike Mesmer he did not believe in the existence of a "magnetic...
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"Discovery of the Unconscious", placed the dispute between Gassner and Franz Anton Mesmer at the center of modern psychotherapy. Royal Commission on Animal...
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physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1814), who developed the theory of Animal Magnetism, which later became known more commonly as Mesmerism. Mesmer claimed...
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examine Franz Mesmer, Mesmer's theories, Mesmer's principles, Mesmer's practices, Mesmer's techniques, Mesmer's apparatus, Mesmer's claims, Mesmer's "cures"...
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was treated from late 1776 until the middle of 1777 by the famous Franz Anton Mesmer, who was able to improve on her blindness temporarily until she was...
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twice for manslaughter of his patients who died under this treatment. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), was a German physician and astrologist, who invented...
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suspended. More fortunate was Mesmer (1993), a biographical film of the 19th century pseudo-scientist Franz Anton Mesmer. Potter's film, Secret Friends...
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the nervous system, there came a new interest in the spirit world. Franz Anton Mesmer spoke of the stars, animal magnetism and magnetic fluids. In 1801...
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Viennese-trained physician, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), for whom it is named. The basis of this doctrine was Mesmer's claimed discovery of a new aetherial...
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mathematician – Mersenne prime, Mersenne's laws, Mersenne twister. Franz Anton Mesmer, German hypnotist – Mesmerism, "to mesmerize". Messalina, Roman empress...
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1752. possibly Vienna, October 1768, in the garden of Dr Franz Mesmer). Dr Franz Anton Mesmer was the founder of the form of hypnotherapy known as "mesmerism"...
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murdered their parents in 1989 Mesmer (1994) – Austrian-Canadian-British-German biographical drama film about Franz Anton Mesmer and his radical new ways as...
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and Isaac Newton. It also suggests influences on Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Anton Mesmer, Jules Verne, and Marcel Duchamp. In the end, Glassie writes, Kircher...
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scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Mesmer. Unlike Mesmer, who claimed that hypnosis was mediated by "animal magnetism"...
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magnet therapy (the alleged healing power of magnets), although it was Franz Anton Mesmer who went further with this and received most of the credit. In 1771...
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