DAVIS, ANDREW JACKSON - Mental Disorders or, Diseases of the Brain and Nerves, developing the Origin and Philosophy of Mania, Insanity, and Crime, with full directions for their Treatment and Cure
Nes York, American News Co. 1871, First Edition,TP Reads "Special Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo, 487 (4, ads) Pp. Frontis. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ One of the most important works of the 19th-century "spiritualist medicine," movement. Davis, one of the founders of the American spiritualist movement believed that there was another world to which all spirits went upon death called the "Summer land", reachable through trance states. It was especially reachable by talented "mediums." Davis, however was interested in life on this world as well and wrote some two dozen books developing his "Harmonial Philosophy", a utopian form of practical mysticism, a religion based on nature and "organic liberty" influenced by anarchist-utopian ideals of freedom. For Davis insanity was a physical phenomenon, he believed that the two hemispheres in the brain controlled different aspects of behavior, in relation to this brings up what we would call today psychosomatic medicine. He agrees with the more radical recent psychologists in believing insanity can be a state of higher consciousness rather than a degradation of consciousness. But he prefigures holistic and psychosomatic medicine, thus, an important forerunner of modern thought. Cordasco 70-0855. RLIn, 2 Locs..
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