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1784: The Marquis de Puységur and the psychological turn in the west

Crabtree, Adam·2019·Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
DOI 10.1002/jhbs.21974
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In 1970 Henri Ellenberger called attention to the previously unrecognized importance of Franz Anton Mesmer's “animal magnetism” in the rise of psychodynamic psychology in the West. This article takes the next step of tracing the course of events that led to Puységur's discovery of magnetic somnambulism and describing the tumultuous social and political climate into which it was introduced in 1784. Beginning from the secret and private publication of his first Mémoires, only a few copies of which remain today, the original core of his discovery is identified and the subsequent development of its implications are examined. Puysègur was initiated into his investigations by Mesmer's system of physical healing, which bears some resemblance to the traditional healing approaches of the East. But Puységur took Mesmer's ideas in an unexpected direction. In doing so, he accomplished a turn toward the psychological that remains one of the distinguishing features of Western culture.

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Authors
Crabtree, A.
Affiliations
Faculty, Centre for Training in Psychotherapy Toronto Ontario Canada
Corresponding author
Crabtree, Adam
ORCID
Crabtree, Adam
Venue
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2019-07
Volume
55
Issue
3
Pages
199-215
ISSN
  • 0022-5061 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-6696
DOI
10.1002/jhbs.21974
OpenAlex
W2955836225
Cited by
12
References
14
Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2
FWCI
4.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 3 d)
Locations
  • Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › History of Science and Medicine
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
Keywords
Franz Anton Mesmer, mesmerism, history of psychology, 18th-century France, Mémoires, history of healing
MeSH terms
Humans, Hypnosis, Psychology, History, 18th Century

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