The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined
the term "hypnotism" as an abbreviation for "neuro-hypnotism", or
nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as:
a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and
abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not
of an exciting nature.[6]
Braid elaborated upon this brief definition in a later work,
[...] the real origin and essence of the hypnotic condition, is the
indu...
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