Author: TOURETTE, G. [A.E.B.] DE LA
Title: L'Hypnotisme et les états analogues au point de vue médico-légal. Les états hynotiques et les états analogues. Les suggestions criminelles. Cabinets de somnambules et sociétés de magnétisme et de spiritisme. l'Hypnotisme devant la loi. ... Preface de M. le Dr. P. Brouardel
Description: Paris, Librairie Plon, E.Plon, Nourrit et cie., Impr. - eds. Rue Garancière, 10, 1887. 8vo. Modern hlf. green mor., spine discol. (original printed wrs. bound with.). (VI, XVI, 534 [index pp. 529 - 534] pp.). (Scattered foxing as usual.). Crabtree, 1172: 'Considered the best and most thorough work on the moral and legal aspects of the practice of animal magnetism and hypnotism. ... to throw light on moral and legal responsibility of the hypnotic subject, Gilles de la Tourette then examines what he calls state "analogous" to hypnotism, principally natural somnambulism, hysteria and dual personality. In the next section of the book, the author investigates the benefits and dangers of hypnotism, emphasizing the responsibility of the hypnotizer for making the situation safe. The final section takes up important legal aspects of hypnotic practice...':

Keywords: medicine W31