The Mesmerists' Itinerary: The Geography of Public Psychology in the United States, 1839-1850

Schmit, David T.; Petit, Mike

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“…A. Walsh, 1976) and mesmerism (Poyen, 1837;Schmit & Petit, 2014). Mind cure was a late century extension of these interests.…”

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“…In the 19th century, a portion of the city’s literate and liberal Protestants developed a keen interest in new metaphysical philosophies such as Swedenborgianism (Block, 1932), Transcendentalism (Pelikan, 1985), and spiritualism (Braude, 1989), and “new sciences” of mind and brain such as phrenology (A. A. Walsh, 1976) and mesmerism (Poyen, 1837; Schmit & Petit, 2014). Mind cure was a late century extension of these interests.…”

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Warren Felt Evans: 19th-century mystic, wounded healer, and seminal theorist-practitioner of mind cure.

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2018

History of Psychology

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The Methodist-Episcopalian minister-turned-physician and philosopher of healing Warren Felt Evans (1817-1889) was one of the earliest practitioners of mental healing, also known as "mind cure." Originating in New England in the second half of the 19th century, mind cure spread through the country in the 1880s. Drawing from Evans's unpublished journals, I recount his struggles with chronic ill health and his turn to the Quietist mystics and Swedenborg, and then to the mesmerist-turned-mental-healer P. P. Quimby to procure both healing for his ills and philosophical sanctification for his soul. The transformational route Evans traveled reflects the mythico-religious journey of the wounded healer who suffers through a creative illness on the way to becoming a healer himself. The article places Evans and the mind cure movement within late-19th-century Boston's medical and cultural milieu. Evans's approach to psychological healing is explored by focusing on his mind-body healing philosophy and mental therapeutics as described in his first 2 mind cure books The Mental Cure (1869) and Mental Medicine (1872). (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…A. Walsh, 1976) and mesmerism (Poyen, 1837;Schmit & Petit, 2014). Mind cure was a late century extension of these interests.…”

Section: Mind Curementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mind Curementioning

confidence: 99%

Warren Felt Evans: 19th-century mystic, wounded healer, and seminal theorist-practitioner of mind cure.

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2018

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The Mesmerists' Itinerary: The Geography of Public Psychology in the United States, 1839-1850

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Warren Felt Evans: 19th-century mystic, wounded healer, and seminal theorist-practitioner of mind cure.

Warren Felt Evans: 19th-century mystic, wounded healer, and seminal theorist-practitioner of mind cure.

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