The History of Bad Ideas: Mesmerism
<p>For our last&nbsp;episode&nbsp;in this series David is joined by Helen Lewis to discuss Mesmerism – aka animal magnetism – an eighteenth-century method of hypnosis for which great medical benefits were claimed.&nbsp;Was its originator, Franz Mesmer, a charlatan or a healer?&nbsp;Was his movement science or religion or something in between?&nbsp;And what can it tell us about twenty-first century phenomena from online social contagion to hypnotherapy?&nbsp;</p><br><p>To get two bonus Bad Ideas&nbsp;episodes&nbsp;– on Email and VAR – sign up now to PPF+, where you will also get all our past and future bonus&nbsp;episodes&nbsp;plus ad-free listening&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ppfieas.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.ppfieas.com</a>&nbsp;</p><br><p>Coming next: The Great Political Fictions resumes with&nbsp;<em>Middlemarch</em>, the greatest of them all.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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For our last episode in this series David is joined by Helen Lewis to discuss Mesmerism – aka animal magnetism – an eighteenth-century method of hypnosis for which great medical benefits were claimed. Was its originator, Franz Mesmer, a charlatan or a healer? Was his movement science or religion or something in between? And what can it tell us about twenty-first century phenomena from online social contagion to hypnotherapy?
To get two bonus Bad Ideas episodes – on Email and VAR – sign up now to PPF+, where you will also get all our past and future bonus episodes plus ad-free listening www.ppfieas.com
Coming next: The Great Political Fictions resumes with Middlemarch, the greatest of them all.
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