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Mesmerism
Mesmerism meaning
The method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions, as in hypnosis or suggestion. | The state induced by hypnotic methods (especially that of Mesmer himself).
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Example sentences (7)
Hypnotism might therefore not inaptly be designated, Rational Mesmerism, in contra-distinction to the Transcendental Mesmerism of the Mesmerists.
Abrahamic, Buddhist, Hollywoodize, Freudianism, and Reagonomics are capitalized; quixotic, bowdlerize, mesmerism, and pasteurization are not; aeolian, and alpinism may be capitalized or not.
Braid based his practice on that developed by Franz Mesmer and his followers (which was called "Mesmerism" or " animal magnetism "), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked.
Braid therefore revised the theory and practice of Mesmerism and developed his own method of hypnotism as a more rational and common sense alternative.
Mesmer left Paris and went back to Vienna to practise mesmerism.
Some contemporary scholars equate Mesmer’s animal magnetism with the Qi (chi) of Traditional Chinese Medicine and mesmerism with medical Qigong practices.
The word "mesmerize", formed from the last name of Franz Mesmer, was intentionally used to separate practitioners of mesmerism from the various "fluid" and "magnetic" theories included within the label "magnetism".