Hippolyte Bernheim
Hippolyte Bernheim · Science & Medicine
Neurologist who established the scientific study of hypnosis and suggestion.
1840, Mulhouse, France — 1919, Paris, France
France
Hippolyte Bernheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Neurologist who established the scientific study of hypnosis and suggestion.
Bernheim, a leading figure of the Nancy School, established the scientific study of hypnosis and suggestion, arguing that hypnotic phenomena arise from ordinary suggestibility rather than a pathological state, an idea that influenced Sigmund Freud. He was born into a Jewish family in Mulhouse, Alsace.
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Neurologist who established the scientific study of hypnosis and suggestion.
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