"German romanticism and mysticism of the eighteenth century provided a fertile soil for the achievements of Anton Mesmer (1733-1815), an Austrian physician whose name is perpetuated in 'Mesmerism', the manifesto of which is his 'Memoir on the Discovery of Animal Magnetism.'...Suggestibility on the part of the patient can, without question, be the key to his recovery; and having found this out Mesmer became, unwittingly, a pioneer of psychotherapy."--PMM 225.