Influences
After the death of Charcot (1893), the Nancy School became the predominant force internationally in psychotherapeutics - a term the Nancy School had coined. Figures such as Morton Prince in the States or Auguste Forel in Switzerland were loosely numbered among its followers, as too were Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud).
Freud translated Bernheim's first two books on hypnotism and suggestion, arguing in his preface to the first (1888) that hypnotism linked up with "familiar phenomena of normal psychological life and sleep". His visit to Nancy to see what he called "Bernheim's astonishing experiments" gave him "the profoundest impression of the possibility that there could be powerful mental processes which nevertheless remained hidden from the consciousness of man".
Émile Coué would subsequently launch the 'second' Nancy School in their wake.
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