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The work analyses the complex relationship between mental illnesses and curative medicine in the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, highlighting problems deriving from unsuitable practices, and shedding light on the overwhelming, asymmetric relationship between doctor/patient, man/woman. The work analyses the doubling phenomena arising from the diaries, which Hoffmann overcame determined not to fall into madness; moreover, the author highlights Hofmmann's qualities as a man and a scholar, attentive to the limits of therapies, questioning doctors without understanding. The author summarises Hoffmann's ideas on the libertarian approach to illness, which includes the acceptance of the patient in their whole being, and presents his idea of therapy consisting of interpersonal dialogue and of listening to a story which reflects a similar case. The author also suggests the novelty of the "talking cure" method ante litteram, which was then successfully adopted by psychoanalysis: a method full of ideas, fruitful for literature, from Poe to Schnitzler, and for cinema, from Hitchcock to Kubrick.

Animal magnetism.

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Animal magnetism --- Magic --- Sleepwalking --- Spirit possession

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Hypnotism. --- Hypnose --- Hypnotism --- Autosuggestion --- Braidism --- Hypnosis --- Trance --- Animal magnetism --- Mesmerism

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Vollständige Ausgabe im Original Verlagseinband (Steifumschlag / Broschur / Kartoneinband gr. 8vo im Format 15,6 x 24 cm) mit Rücken- und Deckeltitel auf dem Original-Schutzumschlag aus grünem Maschinen-Bütten. 364 Seiten, mit Hofmannsthal-Bibliografie, Mitteilungen der Hugo von Hoffmannsthal-Gesellschaft, Siglen- und Abkürzungsverzeichnis, Anschriftenverzeichnis der Mitarbeiter sowie Register. - Erstausgabe in sehr guter Erhaltung, wie neu Versand an Institutionen auch gegen Rechnung.

Hypnotism. --- Autosuggestion --- Braidism --- Hypnosis --- Trance --- Animal magnetism --- Mesmerism

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Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798-1868), poet and collector, was a well-connected friend of Robert Southey and Charles Dickens. He became fascinated with Mesmerism while in Germany and went on to popularise it in England. This book, first published in 1840, was his passionate defence of Mesmerism. Developed in the late eighteenth century by Franz Mesmer, Mesmerism was a kind of hypnosis based on the theory of animal magnetism. With its spiritual associations and uncanny effects, it was an extremely controversial topic in the nineteenth century and its practitioners were widely considered fraudsters. Townshend describes in detail the mental states Mesmerism induces, which he identifies as similar to a state of sleepwalking. Perhaps most fascinating are the eye-witness accounts describing experiments carried out by Townshend on the continent, in which he hypnotised his subjects into feeling his own sensations and knowing things they could not know.

Mesmerism. --- Animal magnetism. --- Human magnetism --- Magnetism, Animal --- Magnetism, Human --- Mind-cure --- Biomagnetism --- Hypnotism --- Magnetic healing --- Magnetism --- Mental suggestion --- Mesmerism --- Therapeutics, Suggestive --- Alternative medicine --- Subconsciousness --- Animal magnetism