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2 leaves [half-title, title page] [v]-iv [mispaginated for vi], vii-xxii, 265, [1, errata et addenda]. Original cloth. Short slit along top of front joint. Some bubbling (or, if you prefer, blistering) in cloth of covers. Stains on covers (a bigger one on on rear cover). Flyleaves darkened. Still a Very Good copy. Preserved with a cloth clamshell box. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 4993: "Braid inaugurated modern hypnotism, the word itself being introduced by him." "The first full-length scientific treatise on what is now known as hypnotism. When he published Neurypnology, Braid did not yet have a full understanding of the psychological processes involved in hypnosis, believing that hypnotic phenomena were produced by functional changes in the nervous, muscular, circulatory and respiratory systems. However he did recognize, as the Abbé Faria and Bertrand had before him, that hypnosis was a subjective phenomenon, dependent entirely on the state of mind of the hypnotized and not on any mystical fluid or occult magical power wielded by the hypnotizer. As Braid continued to investigate hypnotic phenomena, his ideas of what caused them underwent several radical changes, which are demonstrated in his later works. Braid s methods of hypnosis were published in France circa 1860, where they exerted an important influence on the work of Broca, Charcot, Liébeault, and Bernheim, whose teachings in turn influenced the work of Sigmund Freud" (Norman 324). Fulton & Stanton, The Centennial of Surgical Anesthesia, I.17. Crabtree, Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766-1925, 465. Hunter & Macalpine, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, pp. 906-10. NOTE about former owner: Copy of Emily Hesketh, with a gift inscription to (or by?) her, dated May 26th 1845 (see photo). Seller Inventory # 16310
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