| Another psychologist, E.M. Thornton, extends the analogy between hypnotism, mesmerism, and exorcism. |
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| Hypnosis has been popular in both mainstream and complementary medicine since the huge enthusiasm for mesmerism in the 19th century. |
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| For instance, there is an entire chapter on mesmerism, but hardly a paragraph on steel. |
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| These modernist Manhattanites are probably most closely associated with the neo-classical composer and his macro-minimalist mesmerism. |
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| Lee overwhelms his female victims with sheer animal magnetism, rather than a combination of stilted attempts at charm and mesmerism. |
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| Like many Swedenborgians, he had a strong interest in popular sciences and unorthodox medical movements, including phrenology and mesmerism. |
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| He reminds us of Wallace's achievements and pins his downfall on his distracting interest in such fringe fields as mesmerism and phrenology. |
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| Her sister reported that mesmerism and phrenology were also sensations in their north Alabama town while she was away. |
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| Table-turning was even more successful in France, with its tradition of mesmerism and animal magnetism. |
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| Blavatksy may have understood the secret of the divine essence, but I don't think she understood the nature of hypnosis or mesmerism. |
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| He devoted his life to the species problem but also became a popular authority on many topics, including spiritualism, mesmerism, and phrenology. |
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| She even thought that mesmerism and hypnotism were occult arts. |
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| From mesmerism and animal magnetism to theosophy and beyond, Gamwell chronicles with great seriousness attempts by modern artists to explore immanentist spiritualities. |
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| They called it mesmerism, hypnotism, suggestion, I know not what? |
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| From mesmerism and animal magnetism to theosophy and beyond, he chronicles with great seriousness attempts by modern artists to explore immanentist spiritualities. |
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| All the others were converted, but I was to remain an implacable and unpersuadable disbeliever in mesmerism and hypnotism for close upon fifty years. |
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| The prominence given to the topics of mesmerism and clairvoyance heightened the general disapproval of the book. |
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| Among the strange peculiarities remarked in convulsionaries, several are evidently identical with those of which somnambulism and mesmerism offer numerous examples-viz. |
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| 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. |
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| In 1844 Martineau underwent a course of mesmerism, returning to health after a few months. |
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| He had a writer's interest in the occult, notably mesmerism, but despised fraud and believed in the superiority of the scientific method over superstition. |
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| Mesmerism is a bit of medical quackery developed in the 18th century by Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer. |
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| Mesmerism was designed to make invisible forces augment the mental powers of the mesmeric object. |
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