Discovery of Hypnosis
The Complete Writings of James Braid, the Father of Hypnotherapy
Franz Mesmer dissertation 1766 “animal magnetism”
Braid attended Lafontaine show in 1841 – resulting essay first use of “hypnotism”
https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/_/Vs35STwQYQoC
Page 11
Even in Neurypnology, Braid complains of the misconception that hypnotism should be accompanied by a loss of awareness, resembling sleep. This problem finally led him to argue that the word hypnotism should be reserved for those cases in which the subject experiences no recollection afterwards of what happened during the process, though he emphasized that this accounted for only 10% of his subjects. The other 90% of Braids subjects were in a “sub-hypnotic” state referred to as the “vigilant” or “waking” state, or as “concentration”, “abstraction”, or “monoideism”, meaning focused attention upon a single idea or train of thought to the exclusion of other stimuli. He increasingly recognised moreover that hypnotic suggestion and other techniques could be surprisingly effective without any induction whatsoever, in the normal state of mind.
…
Later in his career, he introduces the term psycho-physiology (we now say psychosomatic or mind-body) to help clarify the fact that he thinks the psychological and physiological changes in hypnotism causally interact. Physical and mental changes are intertwined.