In the experimental hypnotism, the yardstick for a good subject was its constancy in displaying certain symptoms that could be translated into a regular curve.
It is not easy to over-estimate the importance of the part played by hypnotism in the history of the origin of psychoanalysis.
The local excitement over hypnotism provided the academic scientist with an occasion when he could promote his science as a sober endorsement of individual responsibility.
The debates about the possibility of experimental hypnotism during the 1870s cannot be isolated from the specific medical cultures in which they were located.
Even on the relatively straightforward phenomenon of hypnotism, a phenomenon that can easily be demonstrated, there were violently opposed points of view.
Another example is provided by the response of physicians and academics to public perceptions of hypnotism in the 1880s.
It was his aim to show that hypnotism should be taken seriously as a science and seen as a legitimate component of medicine and psychology.
I don't think therefore that a kind of hypnotism affects an orchestra, but a very conscious relationship, and you see it especially when this relationship is on a long term.
