Author: SCHUBERT, G. H. VON
Title: Die Krankheiten und Störungen der menschlichen Seele. (Ein Nachtrag zu des Verfassers Geschichte der Seele).
Description: Stuttgart & Tübingen, Cotta, 1845. 8vo. Very nice contemp. lightbrown hlf. cloth over marbled brds., edges and covers w. some rubbing/ scratching, corners in brown cloth. [n8, 1-23 in 8s, 24 in 2]. (XVI, 369, I (blank), I (errata), I (blank) pp.). (All edges speckled in blue / red.). (Very good clean copy). (signature in ink on upper free endp.). Eisler, p. 659 : Leibbrand-Wettley, p. 475 : Hirsch vol. V, pp. 198 - 199 : '... Schubert is besonders bekannt als eifriger Verfechter der Lehren Mesmer's vom thierischen Magnetismus und als Verfasser einer Reihe naturphilosophischer und mystischer Schriften...': An introduction to psychiatry : Ellenberger, 205/6 : An introduction to psychiatry by this professor of biology, psychiatrist and mesmerist, who greatly influenced Freud and Jung. Comp. Caillet vol. 3, items 10021, 10022: Bibl. Magica, comp. item 1479: Schubert was well known for his 2 vol. 'Geschichte der Seele', published Berlin, 1830. His 'Die Krankheiten...', published 15 years later, supplements the former work.

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