James Braid (19 June 1795 – 25 March 1860) was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the...
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History of hypnosis (section James Braid)
France, some twenty years after the death of James Braid, who had adopted the term hypnotism in 1841. Braid adopted the term hypnotism (which specifically...
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Hypnosis (section James Braid)
in English by the Scottish surgeon James Braid (to whom they are sometimes wrongly attributed) around 1841. Braid based his practice on that developed...
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secretory response. The notion of an ideo-dynamic response contributed to James Braid's first neuropsychological explanation of the principle through which...
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Animal magnetism (section Braid and "hypnotism")
James Braid, originates in Braid's response to an 1841 exhibition of "animal magnetism", by Charles Lafontaine, in Manchester. Writing in 1851, Braid...
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James Braid. Student Record for James Esdaile -- University of Edinburgh, Centre for Research Collections, Individual Records, Students of Medicine....
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459-568. Suggestion: Its Place in Medicine and Scientific Research (1897). "James Braid: son œuvre et ses écrits [James Braid: His Work and Writings]", Revue...
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Self-hypnosis (section James Braid)
was introduced in 1841 by the Scottish physician and surgeon James Braid. According to Braid, he first employed "self-hypnotism" (as he elsewhere refers...
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Braid-style hypnotic inductions — the solution for which had, up to that time, eluded Coué: "Coué immediately recognised that the course’s Braid-style...
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influence until the end of the 19th century. In 1843, the Scottish doctor James Braid proposed the term "hypnotism" for a technique derived from animal magnetism;...
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