0 the act of putting someone into a mental state like sleep, in which their thoughts can be easily influenced by someone else:
Doctors may recommend hypnotism to help patients who have problems staying asleep.
They went to see a hypnotism show.
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.
