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Called a charlatan by some 250mg sinemet cr mastercard, a Brahman from the Indies by others (he was born in Goa), he quickly went out of business — but not before he had theorized and described the phenomena of hypnosis by suggestion, in a work entitled De la cause du sommeil lucide [On the cause of lucid sleep]. In 1826 a report was published; it had been given to the king sev- eral years earlier by the astronomer, Bailly. It underlined the "erotic" nature of the Mesmer sessions and the sexual practices observed among those who were most sensitive to the alleged animal magnetism. This report did not prevent Mesmer’s disciples (including La Fontaine) from continuing their proselytizing work. From Mesmerization to Hypnosis In 1841, James Braid went to one of these Mesmer sessions. A Scottish surgeon enamored of new techniques and doctrines, he was shaken by what he saw, but not convinced. He noted the similarities and the differences between real sleep (which would later be called paradoxical) and hyp- notic sleep. He stressed the importance of the phenomena of sugges- tion in what he then called by the name of critical sleep. He had a pre- sentiment that Mesmerian magnetism was non-existent, and he at- tempted to set forth the techniques of what would come to be called hypnosis. He refined a method that consists, for the subject, in staring at a shining point and concentrating on it; he stressed the major role played by suggestibility. Little by little, he provided the foundations of what he called neuro-hypnotism, and later hypnotism. The rupture between Braid and the Mesmerians was complete, after they attacked him in the Mesmerian newspaper Zoist, to which Braid responded by publishing La Physiologie de fascination et critique de la critique [Physiology of fascina- tion and a critique of criticism].

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