Description:
Our ideas of complementary and alternative healing are the legacy of two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer. This book traces the influence of these two men through the nineteenth century as their ideas were embraced by utopians, psychic healers, spiritualists, homeopaths, and ultimately by the modern inheritors of those traditions.
Review Quotes:
Medicine can go further than simply alleviating a problem. Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Contemporary Medicine delves into the philosophies and practices developed by Swedenborg and Mesmer as they developed their ideas of complementary medicine, and alternative practices such as spiritual healing, psychic ideas, and other ideas that have evolved into today's new age and alternative medicine. Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection is a riveting read of the pioneers of this train of medicine thought.
--Wisconsin Bookwatch: June 2010