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Hypnotism
Hypnotism Hyp"no*tism, n. [Gr. ? sleep: cf. F. hypnotisme.]
A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial
means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some
powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by
an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses,
as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly
at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure
upon certain points of the surface of the body.
Meaning of Hypnotism from wikipedia
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pseudoscience or quackery. The
words hypnosis and
hypnotism both
derive from the term neuro-
hypnotism (nervous sleep), all of
which were
coined by Étienne...
- bush by
using the
rooster as bait.
Werner Herzog has
included chicken hypnotism in
several films,
including the 1968
Signs of Life,
which features a scene...
- Book the Fourth: The
Miserable Mill is the
fourth novel of the children's
novel series A
Series of
Unfortunate Events by
Lemony Snicket. In this novel...
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often encourage audience members to look
further into the
benefits of
hypnotism. The
causes of
behavior exhibited by
volunteers in
stage hypnosis shows...
- Harte, R.,
Hypnotism and the Doctors,
Volume I:
Animal Magnetism: Mesmer/De Puysegur, L.N.
Fowler & Co., (London), 1902. Harte, R.,
Hypnotism and the Doctors...
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Molly Moon and the
Incredible Book of
Hypnotism is a 2015
British fantasy film
directed by
Christopher N.
Rowley and
starring Dominic Monaghan, Lesley...
- the
death of
James Braid, who had
adopted the term
hypnotism in 1841.
Braid adopted the term
hypnotism (which
specifically applied to the
state of the subject...
-
Molly Moon's
Incredible Book of
Hypnotism is a 2002 children's
novel by
British author Georgia Byng. It is the
first instalment in the
Molly Moon six-book...
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Modern Hypnotism"; however, in
relation to the
issue of
there being significant connections between Braid's "
hypnotism" and "modern
hypnotism" (as practised)...
- with John
Milne Bramwell, is
widely credited with
reintroducing medical hypnotism or
hypnotherapy to the
United Kingdom in the late nineteenth-century....
