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(a)German Edition:
1889 Wiener med. Wochenschr., 39 (28), 1097-1100 and (47), 1892-6. (July 13 and November 23.)
The German original seems never to have been reprinted and this is the first English translation (by James Strachey).
The full title of Forel's book was Der Hypnotismus, seine Bedeutung und seine Handhabung (Hypnotism, its Significance and its Management). Its author (1848-1931) was at this time Professor of Psychiatry at Zurich and enjoyed a very considerable reputation. His later writings on sociological subjects (and on the natural history of ants) were widely read. Though eventually he became highly critical of psycho-analysis, it was he who introduced Freud to Bernheim. Freud visited Nancy during the summer of 1889, between the publication of the two parts of this review. (Cf. the Editor's Introduction, p. 65 above.)