Just as the renown of mesmerism lessened it into the "science" of hypnotism, the renown of hypnotism lessened it further into suggestion and psycho-therapeutics, treating mostly psychological "diseases of the imagination" instead of psychosomatic "diseases caused by the imagination." Albert Moll ... Read More

The Nancy School gradually prevailed over the Paris School. Hypnosis and suggestion were intermingled with psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, propaganda, eugenics, etc., to a greater or lesser degree. Albert Moll (Hypnotism: Including a Study of the Chief Points of Psycho-therapeutics and Occul... Read More

Keith Harary ("The trouble with HYPNOSIS. Whose power is it anyway?," Psychology Today, Mar.-Apr. 1992) wrote … "In all likelihood, hypnosis is a metaphor for selling our own intrinsic mental capabilities short. Hypnosis may be the ultimate psychic sales spiel — a way for us to disown powers ... Read More

Heather Wolffram ("'An object of vulgar curiosity': legitimizing medical hypnosis in Imperial Germany," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Jan. 2012) wrote … "During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, German medical hypnotists sought to gain a therapeutic an... Read More

Dr. Moll played a major role in popularizing hypnosis and suggestion in Germany. He refused to precisely define the hypnotic state, writing … "But hardly anything is known of the real nature of psychical life, and from this arises the difficulty, nay impossibility, of giving any explanation ... Read More