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LIBEAULT, Ambrose Auguste (1823-1904). Du sommeil et des tats analogues considrs surtout au point de vue de l'action du moral sur le physique. Paris: Victor Masson; Nancy: Nicolas Grosjean, 1866.
8o (226 x 143 mm). Original tan printed wrappers (spine worn and with vertical cracks, lower rear fore-corner chipped); brown cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in pencil by Libeault on the half-title: "Hommage de l'auteur /Monsieur Glosson [?] membre de/l'institute/A.A. Libeault." "The use of hypnotic suggestion as psychotherapy may have begun with the work of Libeault, whose Le sommeil represents two years of clinical study of the therapeutic uses of hypnotism...Libeault's work attracted the interest of Hippolyte Marie Bernheim who went to Nancy to observe Libeault's methods. The two men established the Nancy School of psychiatry, whose empirical, therapeutic and clinical approach to the uses of hypnosis contrasted with the investigative and systematizing philosophy of Charcot's Salptrire School. Libeault's work indirectly influenced Sigmund Freud, who studied with Bernheim two decades later" (Norman). Le sommeil had a very disappointing reception upon publication and was also completely ignored by the medical community; it is rare. Crabtree 896; Garrison-Morton 4994 (a Paris 1889 edition); Hunter & Macalpine, p. 907; Zilboorg & Henry, pp. 357-359; Norman 1347.
8o (226 x 143 mm). Original tan printed wrappers (spine worn and with vertical cracks, lower rear fore-corner chipped); brown cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in pencil by Libeault on the half-title: "Hommage de l'auteur /Monsieur Glosson [?] membre de/l'institute/A.A. Libeault." "The use of hypnotic suggestion as psychotherapy may have begun with the work of Libeault, whose Le sommeil represents two years of clinical study of the therapeutic uses of hypnotism...Libeault's work attracted the interest of Hippolyte Marie Bernheim who went to Nancy to observe Libeault's methods. The two men established the Nancy School of psychiatry, whose empirical, therapeutic and clinical approach to the uses of hypnosis contrasted with the investigative and systematizing philosophy of Charcot's Salptrire School. Libeault's work indirectly influenced Sigmund Freud, who studied with Bernheim two decades later" (Norman). Le sommeil had a very disappointing reception upon publication and was also completely ignored by the medical community; it is rare. Crabtree 896; Garrison-Morton 4994 (a Paris 1889 edition); Hunter & Macalpine, p. 907; Zilboorg & Henry, pp. 357-359; Norman 1347.