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Volume 330:1242-1243 April 28, 1994 Number 17
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From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing

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By Adam Crabtree. 413 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1994. $45. ISBN 0-300-05588-9.

Sigmund Freud is widely thought of as the great discoverer of the unconscious and of its role in normal and pathologic mental events. Although Freud's explorations of unconscious processes and his theories about their place in mental experiences have had an enormous influence on 20th-century concepts of the mind, he was by no means the first to deal with such issues. Crabtree's book reminds us of that fact by carefully tracing some of the early roots of the alternate-consciousness paradigm that Freud and his later followers subsequently developed.

This book revisits major stages in the history of clinical investigations of . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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