Hypnotising Collection

Hypnotic Séance, 1887. Creator: Sven Richard Bergh
Hypnotic Seance, 1887

Hypnotism, ca. 1845. Creator: John Adams Whipple
Hypnotism, ca. 1845

Hypnotism, 1891. Male hypnotist putting a young woman into an hypnotic trance. Animal magnetism or hypnotism had a revival at the end of the 19th century

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. 1923. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at

Edgar Berillon, French psychologist, 1929
Edgar Berillon (1854-1948), French psychologist, c1929. Reverse of a medal struck to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Berillons (1854-1948)

Hypnosis, 1889. Placing a patient under the influence of hypnotism, top, and releasing him from that influence, bottom. From The Illustrated Practical Mesmerist by William Davey. (London, 1889)

Jean Martin Charcot demonstrating hypnosis, 1879. Charcot (1825-1893), French neurologist and pathologist, demonstrating the production of hypnosis using beam of light from a magic lantern

Hypnosis subject suffering from imaginary toothache, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin

Subject going into a hypnotic trance, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893)

Subjects hypnotised by the sound of a gong, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Hypnotised subject in a state of catalepsy, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Hypnotised subjects attracted by a matchbox, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley giving a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Au Clair de la Lune : the power of hypnosis, 1894. Artist: George du Maurier
Au Clair de la Lune : the power of hypnosis, 1894. Trilby the tone-deaf! Who couldn t tell a C from an F!! giving a concert under Svengalis hypnotic influence. From Trilby by George du Maurier

Caricature of Franz Anton Mesmer, c1785. He is depicted as an ass hypnotising a female subject with a finger. In 1779, soon after the publication of his treatise Memoire sur la decouverte de

Hypnosis, 1680. Experimentum Mirabile: a chicken hypnotised by its beak being placed on a line. From Physiologia Kircheriana by Athanasius Kircher. (Amsterdam, 1680)

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