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Mesmer believed that he could charge substances, including water, with magnetism and that he could treat several patients concurrently by having them hold metal rods placed in containers of magnetized water; his famous baquet was a variation on this kind of group therapy device.
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May 19, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ideas such as existentialism developed into humanistic psychology while the contribution of women and minorities were added to the history of psychology. Overall, the study of the thoughts, ideas, and behaviors was a rough draft concept that lacked a foundation until the pre-modernism era.
- Mark Dalton
In the late eighteenth century, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) promulgated “animal magnetism” as a pervasive property of nature that could be chan-neled as an effective therapy for a wide variety of conditions (Fig. 1).
- Douglas J. Lanska, Joseph T. Lanska
- 2007
Major Accomplishments/Contributions. Many of Mesmer’s medical and scientific writings are available in English translation (Bloch 1980 ). As indicated above, it is difficult to know how much to attribute to Mesmer for mesmerism’s (hypnosis) ultimate contributions.
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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...
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