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Journal Articles & Encyclopedia Entries

Schmit, D.T. (2020). Mind Cure and Mental Therapeutics in the Late 19th Century United States. Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Psychology.  DOI: 9780190236557.013.636

(2018.) Warren Felt Evans; Nineteenth-Century Mystic, Wounded Healer and Seminal Theorist-Practitioner of Mind Cure. History of Psychology, Vol. 21 (3), pp. 187-207

(2018). Kirtan in North America. Encyclopedia of Hinduism and Tribal Religions Springer.

Dictionary of Early American Philosophers (2011;Theommes/Continuum)

  • Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910).
  • John Bovee Dods (1795-1872)
  • Warren Felt Evans (1817-1889)
  • Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866)
  • La Roy Sunderland (1804-1885)

Schmit, D. T. (2010). The Mesmerists Inquire About Oriental Mind Powers; West Meets East in the Search for the Universal Trance. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 46(1), 1-26.

(2005). Revisioning Antebellum American Psychology: The Dissemination of Mesmerism, 1836-1854. History of Psychology, 8(4), 403-434.

(2000). The Emancipation of Consciousness in Nineteenth Century America. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7(10), 41-60.

Editorial

Yogashakti, Ma (2020). D. T. Schmit, (editor) Pranic Breathing: Practice and Power; An Introduction to Swara Yoga. New York: Yogashakti Publications.

Book Review

Schmit, D.T. (2020). For Credulity’s Sake. A Review of Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism, by Emily Ogden. Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 84 (2), 304- 308.