James Braid: NEURYPNOLOGY

Although initially skeptical about the mesmeric trance, James Braid (1795-1860) became convinced that a genuine self-induced sleep could be brought on by staring at a bright inanimate object. Braid supposed that this fixation led to a state of fatigue that became "nervous sleep."

Written in 1843 : NEURYPNOLOGY; OR, THE RATIONALE OF NERVOUS SLEEP, introduced such terms as hypnotism, hypnotize and hypnotic.

Historians agree that Braid's work is important. Garrison called him, "The pioneer of scientific hypnosis before Charcot." This work founded what is known as the French school. Braid's theories were adopted by Azam, Broca, Charcot, Biebeault, and Bernheim.

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