An annotated edition of a landmark study in the history of psychology, including extensive essays and other critical apparatus that place Antoine Despine's work in its proper historical and scientific context. More Reviews and Recommendations

Joanne M. McKeown is currently Associate Professor of French language and literature at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She also works with the formation of foreign language teachers there.  Recent publications related to this translation are "Visions as Illness and Inspiration: Young Estelle L’Hardy and Sister Anne-Catherine Emmerich in Works of Doctor Antoine Despine and Poet Clemens Brentano" in the Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages (2006) and "Restoring Literary Wholeness to the Fragmented Account of Antoine Despine's Magnetic Cure of Estelle L'Hardy's Dissociative Disorder" in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (2007). Catherine G. Fine, Ph.D. is an American-educated psychologist specializing in the treatment of dissociative disorders and complex post-traumatic conditions. Her areas of expertise span psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, hypnosis, and EMDR, to name a few.  he publishes and teaches nationally and internationally on the structured treatment of trauma disorders, on crisis prevention in outpatient therapies, and on management and evolution of trauma disorders groups--all informed by hypnosis. More recently, she has added coaching executives in stressful corporate environments to her areas of expertise.

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