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Utica, NY: Utica State Hospital, 1890. 110pp. + 18 pages of illustrated rear ads + frontis photogravure of John S. Butler + errata slip inserted at page 26. Printed buff wrappers with black spine, front, & rear lettering. Wrappers chipped and detached, spine quite worn but with most of the printing still readable. Contains W. W. Godding "Aspects and Outlook of Insanity in America"; R[ichard] M[aurice] Bucke "Sanity" [pp. 17-26, read at the Association's 1890 annual meeting in Niagara Falls]; Charles W. Page "The Relation of Attention to Hypnotic Phenomena"; C. E. Wright "Large or Small Hospitals -- Which?"; W. L. Worcester "Is Puerperal Insanity a Distinct Clinical Form?"; Charles G. Wagner "A Case of Trephining for General Paresis"; abstracts & extracts; notes & comments; obituaries of John S. Butler and Edward C. Fisher. First (only?) appearance of Bucke's paper. Appointed Superintendent of the asylum at London, Ontario, in 1877, the same year he met & befriended Walt Whitman, Bucke (1837-1902) practiced a benign moral treatment in his asylum and developed a mystical philosophy that he articulated in his last book Cosmic Consciousness, a foundation text for transpersonal psychology that is still widely read. 8.1 ounces = 232 grams. 9.4 x 6.0 x 0.3 inches = 23.5 x 15 x 0.7cm. Binding: PB.

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