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[[Hypnosis ]] is the altered [[state ]] of [[consciousness ]] brought on by a hypnotist using various techniques (staring at an [[object]], [[verbal ]] commands, etc.). The [[English ]] physician [[James ]] Braid, in his Neurhypnology (1843), popularized, or may even have coined, the [[word ]] "[[hypnotism]]." "Hypnosis" appears to have come into use later.

Braid sought to replace unscientific [[ideas ]] and practices with a [[scientific ]] conception of a "peculiar state of the nervous [[system ]] induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the [[mental ]] and [[visual ]] eye." He also hoped to..