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Baquet: The Genesis of Collective Suggestion
The baquet was an 18th-century apparatus devised by Franz Anton Mesmer to concentrate animal magnetism,...
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James Braid – 1795 1860
A comprehensive academic examination of James Braid (1795–1860), the Scottish surgeon who demystified animal magnetism...
October 23, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Hippolyte Bernheim – 1840 1919
A comprehensive academic examination of Hippolyte Bernheim (1840–1919), his pioneering doctrine of suggestion, the Nancy...
October 23, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
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Animal Magnetism: The Roots of Modern Hypnosis
Animal magnetism, or mesmerism, was an 18th-century doctrine positing a universal vital fluid that transformed...
October 20, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti