ANIMAL MAGNETISM. - DOPPET. Theoretical and practical treati - Lot 34

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ANIMAL MAGNETISM. - DOPPET. Theoretical and practical treati - Lot 34
ANIMAL MAGNETISM. - DOPPET. Theoretical and practical treatise on animal magnetism. Turin, J.-M. Briolo, 1784. - DAMPIERRE. Impartial reflections on animal magnetism. Genève, BarthélémiChirol; Paris, Perisse le jeune, 1784. - TARDY DE MORAVELLE. Essay on the theory of magnetic somnambulism. London, 1785. - PUYSÉGUR (J. Chasteney de). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal. - Suite des Mémoires. London, s.n.,1786. 2 volumes in one. - Together 4 works in a large volume in-8, half vellum with corners, untrimmed (Binding of the period). A handsome collection containing the first editions of the first three texts. Puységur's work appeared in 1784-1785, and the author describes the phenomena he calls artificial somnambulism and reveals the main signs of hypnosis. He discerns the links between patients and caregivers, which he calls Rapports ("Transfers" in the opinion of Ellen Berger, La Découverte de l'inconscient, p. 63 and following). Barrucand, L'Histoire de l'hypnose, n°299.
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