0 the act of putting someone into a mental state like sleep, in which a person's thoughts can be easily influenced by someone else --
He is a psychiatrist and explorer as well as a minor telepath and magician, specializing mostly in hypnosis and other feats of mesmerism.
He also has the powers of mesmerism, thought-casting, illusion-casting, and astral projection.
But mesmerism has comedown to these times, and it has always had its successes.
The support of osteopathy is as a mere drop in the bucket compared with that which mesmerism received in that day.
Hérold's ballet-pantomime and its attendant vaudevilles encapsulated some of the ideas circulating in 1827 regarding immorality, mesmerism and the ambiguous relationship between the unconscious and the supernatural.
In its broadest sense the term 'mesmerism' referred to a spectrum of phenomena, all apparently derived from the supposed vital force or influence.
It was precisely this rapport, however, that many distrusted: the charge of immorality generally associated with mesmerism was intensified by the physical nature of this treatment.
It was known for its fierce attacks on homeopathy, hydropathy, mesmerism, and other approaches considered "sectarian" and unreliable by the "regular" (allopathic) medical establishment.
