Sites of the unconscious analyzes the major controversies between competing french schools of hypnotism that emerged at this time stressing their different views on the production of viable evidence and their different ways of deploying hypnosis mayer then reconstructs in detail the reception of french hypnotism in german speaking countries arguing that the distinctive features of freuds psychoanalytic setting of the couch emerged out of the clinical laboratories and private consulting . Sites of the unconscious hypnosis and the emergence of the psychoanalytic setting by andreas mayer trans christopher barber chicago university of chicago press 2013 272 pp reviewed by katja guenther. Sites of the unconscious hypnosis and the emergence of the psychoanalytic setting by andreas mayer january 2015 bulletin of the history of medicine 891142 143. Sites of the unconscious hypnosis and the emergence of the psychoanalytic setting andreas mayer and christopher barber abstract in the late nineteenth century scientists psychiatrists and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses hypnotism though the efforts of the famous french . Request pdf on sep 1 2014 martin wieser published andreas mayer sites of the unconscious hypnotism and the emergence of the psychoanalytic setting translated by christopher barber chicago