Annetta Gertrude Seabury Dresser (1843–1935) was an American writer and early leader of the New Thought movement.
[1] She became a "mind cure" practitioner, treating philosopher and writer William James, among others.
For a time they were both patients and later among the "first disciples" of New England "mentalist" Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.
Among her patients was the noted American philosopher and writer William James, who had about twelve sessions with her in an effort to treat his insomnia.
William James treated Dresser's works respectfully in his own book, Varieties of Religious Experience.