CONTENTS; Dedication; INTRODUCTION; FRANZ ANTON MESMER; THE PRECURSOR; LIKENESS; THE SPARK; FIRST EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL DOUBTS; MARIA THERESIA PARADIES; PARIS; MESMEROMANIA; THE ACADEMY TAKES ACTION; A RALLY IN MESMER'S DEFENCE; MESMERISM MINUS MESMER; OBLIVION; THE UPSHOT; MARY BAKER EDDY; LIFE & DOCTRINE; FORTY WASTED YEARS; QUIMBY; THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MIRACLE; PAUL AMONG THE HEATHEN; LIKENESS; THE FIRST STEP; MARY BAKER EDDY'S DOCTRINE; METAMORPHOSIS INTO REVELATION; THE LAST CRISIS; CHRIST & THE DOLLAR; WITHDRAWAL INTO THE CLOUDS; CRUCIFIXION; THE UPSHOT.;Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, &Sigmund Freud—three influential thinkers who travelled very different paths in their search for the crucial link between mind & body.Zweig'sbrilliant study explores the lives & work of these important figures, raising provocative questions regarding the efficacy & even the morality of their methods. An insight into the minds of three key thinkers who shaped the philosophy of our age,Mental Healersis a wonderfully intriguing & thought-provoking biographical work from a renowned master of the genre.