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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Hypnosis (section Franz Mesmer)
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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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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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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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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Pierre Janet Edith Klemperer Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault Ormond McGill Franz Mesmer Albert Moll Julian Ochorowicz Ivan Pavlov Morton Prince Marquis de Puységur...
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and nineteenth centuries, including the work of Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer, as well as Spiritualism, New Thought, and Theosophy. More immediately...
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Spiritualism (movement) (section Swedenborg and Mesmer)
the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) and the teachings of Franz Mesmer (1734–1815) provided an example for those seeking direct personal knowledge...
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have often been traced back to Phineas Quimby, or even as far back as Franz Mesmer, who was one of the first European thinkers to link one's mental state...
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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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Crowley, George Gurdjieff, Helena Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Mesmer, Grigori Rasputin, Daniel Dunglas Home, Paracelsus, P. D. Ouspensky,...
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the theories of Franz Mesmer (1734–1815). However, the use of the (conventional) English term animal magnetism to translate Mesmer's magnétisme animal...
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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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19th-century specimens of the armonica have survived into the 21st century. Franz Mesmer also played the armonica and used it as an integral part of his Mesmerism...
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feelings. Hypnosis, which was pioneered in the late 18th century by Franz Mesmer and Armand-Marie Jacques de Chastenet, Marques de Puységur, challenged...
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somnambulist clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puységur, a follower of Franz Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race...
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ideas were transmitted partly through alchemy. In the 18th century, Franz Mesmer studied the works of alchemists such as Paracelsus and van Helmont. Van...
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a renowned practitioner of mesmerism—the theories first developed by Franz Mesmer involving animal magnetism. He was born at Sennevoy-le-Haut, the son...
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S2CID 21598789. Gravitz, M.A., "The First Use of Self-Hypnosis: Mesmer Mesmerizes Mesmer", American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Vol.37, No.1, (July 1994)...
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not been reliably transmitted to future generations. In the 1700s Anton Mesmer offered pseudoscientific justification for his practices, but his rationalizations...
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be of the same nature as those described previously by Franz Mesmer and even long before Mesmer by Swedenborg. The French parapsychologists Hippolyte Baraduc...
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"qi" and "élan vital" existed from antiquity. In the 18th century, Franz Mesmer ignited debate with his theory of animal magnetism. Attention to vitalism...
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in Vienna by Franz Mesmer in his Mémoire on the Discovery of Animal-Magnetism in 1779. It is clear that Reichenbach was aware of Mesmer's work and that...
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cruel, he considered it preferable to being put to death. In 1784, when Franz Mesmer began to publicize his theory of "animal magnetism", which was considered...
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(1886-1943), physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Franz Mesmer (1734-1815), physician, developed an early form of hypnotism Ernst Moro...
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(1727–1781), the brother of Madame de Pompadour, at 8, Place Vendôme. Franz Mesmer, (1734–1815), the German physician and discoverer of animal magnetism...
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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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