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Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine
Complementary and alternative healing encompass a wide range of practices that share a common ground: the belief that our physical well-being is inextricably linked to an unseen world beyond our physical senses. Our view of that world can be traced to two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer.
Who were these men, and what shaped their thought? How did their ideas capture the public imagination? How did they speak to movements as diverse as utopianism, Spiritualism, psychic healing, and homeopathy? Historian John S. Haller traces the threads of Swedenborg’s and Mesmer’s influence through the history of nineteenth-century medicine, illuminating the lasting impact these men have had on concepts of alternative healing.
Who were these men, and what shaped their thought? How did their ideas capture the public imagination? How did they speak to movements as diverse as utopianism, Spiritualism, psychic healing, and homeopathy? Historian John S. Haller traces the threads of Swedenborg’s and Mesmer’s influence through the history of nineteenth-century medicine, illuminating the lasting impact these men have had on concepts of alternative healing.
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344 pages, Hardcover
First published March 11, 2010
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January 5, 2021Amazing story . it captures real creativity in exploring mind body connection. The developments in homeopathy and other systems that we refer to now as 'alternative" is inspiring. it is so sad what the American medical system has evolved into. So few choices.
September 14, 2015
Unimpressed. Cursory notes to the correspondence ( pun partially intended ) of Swedenborg and Mesmer to modern healing. You wont learn much here, by the time your prior reading led you here
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