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I’d like to take a moment to mention that any use of the term “hypnotism” before 1841 is speculative since James Braid was the first to use that term in 1841. Braid adopted the term hypnotism to emphasize the state of the subject, rather than the techniques applied by the operator.
Braid’s technique was a subject-centered approach, [...]
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