What Harry Houdini was to magic, Ormond McGill was to stage hypnosis. This exciting biography reads as a road map of one man’s astonishing seventy-five year career in stage hypnosis. Ormond McGill circled the world performing his art traveling to hundreds of places from Hollywood sound studios to the military camps in Korea, as well as almost every country in the world. He also appeared in front of early television’s hot lights on The Ed Sullivan Show and others. Ormond first started practicing stage hypnosis in 1927, and is now known world-wide as the “Dean of American Hypnotists.” Wh... [Read More]
Svengali, the malevolent hypnotist in a sensationally successful novel published by George du Maurier in 1894, became such a well-known character in the culture of the period that his name entered the dictionary as one who exerts a malign persuasiveness on another. This book explores the origins and impact of Svengali and his helplessly mesmerized female victim Trilby in an age already rife with discussions of race, influence, and the unconscious mind.Daniel Pick points out that Svengali was a Jew as well as a dangerous hypnotist; his depiction struck a chord not only with pervasive nineteenth... [Read More]
From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin―but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug ... [Read More]
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago,
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