“I regard this book as THE fountain head of hypnosis. Braid not only gives us the word we now use for our subject, but brought to it a clarity of thought and an energy of experimentation which is unparallelled.” Ragged University
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He argued that hypnosis is triggered by the fixation of attention on a single object or idea. “I regard this book as THE fountain head of hypnosis
Braid’s work focused on the physical and psychological mechanisms that induce a hypnotic state: NEURYPNOLOGY James Braid
Braid debunked the idea that a "magnetic fluid" passed from the operator to the patient.