The Revue de l'Hypnotisme et de la Psychologie Physiologique, founded in Paris in 1887 by Edgar Bérillon, was the leading French clinical review of hypnotism, suggestion and physiological psychology. Its pages carry the great medical debate of the era — Charcot's Salpêtrière against Bernheim's Nancy school — alongside forensic and hygienic applications of suggestion and éloges of physicians. Where it touches the séance and animal magnetism it does so to medicalise them: somnambulism, lucidity and the 'magnetic fluid' are treated as physiological problems, not spiritual doctrines. It is best read as a scientific periodical at the outer margin of the esoteric field, documenting how hypnotism was being reclaimed from mesmerism by the clinic.
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