Not to be confused with Marie the ALS patient, Wittmann was called the "Queen of Hysterics," because she could be triggered to convulse through hypnosis; that is, until Charcot's death at the age ...

Scientists are using hypnosis to understand why some people ... in France at the beginning of the 20th Century: Jean-Martin Charcot, now considered the “founder of modern neurology”, and ...

To study the hysterics under his care, he learned the technique of hypnosis and soon became a master of the relatively new "science." Charcot believed that a hypnotized state was very similar to a ...

a Scottish surgeon who believed hypnosis was a sleeplike trance state. 19th-century French neurologist Jean Charcot, one of Freud’s mentors, thought hypnotism to be a special physiological state.

The phenomenon is related to hypnosis, in which a person is convinced that he or she has lost bodily control or is paralyzed. Techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are revealing ...

To study the hysterics under his care, he learned the technique of hypnosis and soon became a master of the relatively new "science." Charcot believed that a hypnotized state was very similar to a ...

To study the hysterics under his care, he learned the technique of hypnosis and soon became a master of the relatively new "science." Charcot believed that a hypnotized state was very similar to a ...