hypnotism

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Unlike previous Family Leadership Summits, which had speakers like David Noebel, the author of the 1965 classic Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles, this was a relatively restrained gathering.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2015

Hypnotism appears to be effective in reducing pain.

From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013

Then, in the late 1990s, Bachmann began reading David A. Boebel, an actual John Bircher Society member and minister who wrote in insane pamphlets for crazy people with names like "Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles."

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2011

Hypnotism does, however, permit the operator to penetrate so deeply into the personality of his patient that no one dares play with the art.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new methods of hypnotism and suggestion interested him greatly, and in 1889 he published a monograph on "Functional Aphonia and its Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion."

From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Björkman, Edwin