Stefan Zweigwas born in 1881 in Vienna, a member - Pushkin Press

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Mental Healers:
Mesme, Eddy and Freud
Stefan Zweig
Translated from the German by
eden and Cedar Paul
Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and
Sigmund Freud—three influential thinkers
who travelled very different paths in their
search for the crucial link between mind and
body. Zweig’s brilliant study explores the lives
and work of these important figures, raising
provocative questions regarding the efficacy
and even the ethics of their methods.
An insight into the minds of three key thinkers
who shaped the philosophy of our age, Mental
Healers is a wonderfully intriguing and
thought-provoking biographical work from a
renowned master of the genre.
Publication: winter 2012
ISBN 9781906548940 • 411pp • £11.99
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member
of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and
was first known as a poet and translator, and later as a biographer. Zweig
travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary
fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with
the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship.
After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and
his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide.
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