The word 'mesmerism' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is derived from the name of the 18th-century German physician Franz Anton Mesmer and refers to the practice of inducing a hypnotic state in someone. It is typically used in the context of hypnosis and may also refer to any kind of powerful or captivating influence. Example: The magician used mesmerism to put the entire audience in a trance-like state, making them believe they were witnessing real magic.
May 23, 1734 Iznang, Germany March 5, 1815 Swabia, Germany Franz Anton Mesmer, (born May 23 , 1734 Iznang, Swabia [Germany] died March 5, 1815, Meersburg, Swabia), German physician whose system of therapeutics, known as mesmerism, was the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism.
A native of Portland, Maine, Quimby practiced mesmerism (hypnotism) and developed his concepts of mental and spiritual healing and health based on the view that illness is a matter of the mind.
Though personally loyal to Quimby, she soon recognized that his healing method was based in mesmerism, or mental suggestion, rather than in the biblical Christianity to which she was so firmly bound.
Mesmerism was the precursor of hypnotism, a widely used psychotherapeutic method (see hypnosis) that arose from the research of Jean-Martin Charcot.
Mesmerism, a belief in "animal magnetism" sponsored by Franz Anton Mesmer, probably owed any therapeutic value it had to suggestions given while the patient was under hypnosis.
He also read works and attended lectures on phrenology and mesmerism, forming an interest in nonmaterial mental phenomena that grew increasingly prominent later in his life.
He challenges the enshrinement of scientific rationalism, the mesmerism of television and 'the morality of the camera'.
One of the progenitors of the movement was a clockmaker from New England named Phineas Quimby, who was a firm believer in the occult powers of mesmerism and clairvoyance and faith healing, until, in the eighteen-fifties, he had a revelation: sick people could be healed solely by the belief that they would be.
It has a cobra-skin shimmer, a mesmerism all its own.
The gaunt, mute star performs acts of mesmerism in which he transfixes spectators by the sole force of his eyes and is said to "provoke terrifying visions" by means of mirrors, projectors, and magic lanterns.
Walt Whitman, the New York poet behind O'Hara, the New York poet behind Zucker, had read about mesmerism and seemed to believe in some kind of literal connection between widely distributed selves.
