Mental Healers: Mesmer, Eddy and Freud
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1906548943 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 430 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-08 |
| Language | : | German |
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“What did Zweig have that brought him the fanatical devotion of millions of readers, the admiration of Herman Hesse, the invitation to give the eulogy at the funeral of Sigmund Freud? To learn that, we would have to have a biography that illuminated all aspects of his work, that read all of his books, and that challenged, rather than accepted, the apparent modesty of his statements about his life and work.” – Benjamin Moser, Bookforum"Zweig’s readability made him one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century all over the world, with translations into thirty languages. Those adjectives are not meant as faint praise. Scott, The New York Times "Stefan Zweig cherished the everyday imperfections and frustrated asp
extremely interesting Ana Maria Veronica G I found this book excellent in its first two sections, as it gives a very detailed account of the lives of both Mesmer and of Mary Baker Eddy, It is full of carefully researched descriptions of the lives of these two people and of the surrounding social milieu. However the section on Freud is closer to a summary of Zweig's own interpretation of psychoanalysis than a biographical essay. Perhaps the fact that Zweig knew Freud personally and interacted with him deprived him of the necessary distance from his subject. Being so close. "Another Great by Stefan Zweig" according to A. Cathcart. Zweig was a world renowned author in his time, profiling the lives of great and very interesting and controversial people. This book, I believe, is one of his masterpieces. It is a wonderful addition to any healer's library.. Disappointed Deborah M. Dunne I was disappointed in this book. I felt he used magazine and newspaper articles that had been written about, in particular Mary Baker Eddy. From his writings I very much doubt if he read her seminal work Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. I feel that he most likely would have gleaned a good deal of hope from it and may not have committed suicide. He certainly seems to have despaired for the world which is hardly surprising given what he had been through.
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later
Zweig’s brilliant study explores the lives and work of these important figures, raising provocative questions regarding the efficacy and even the morality of their methods.An insight into the minds of three key thinkers who shaped the philosophy of our age, Mental Healers is a wonderfully intriguing and thought-provoking biographical work from a renowned master of the genre.. Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and Sigmund Freud—three influential thinkers who travelled very different paths in their search for the crucial link between mind and body