Braid ’ s work had a strong influence on a number of important French medical figures, especially Étienne Eugène Azam ( 1822 – 1899 ) of Bordeaux ( Braid ’ s principal French “ disciple ”), the anatomist Pierre Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), the physiologist Joseph Pierre Durand de Gros ( 1826 – 1901 ), and the eminent hypnotherapist and co-founder of the Nancy School Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault ( 1823 – 1904 ).

In 1997 Braid ’ s part in developing hypnosis for therapeutic purposes was recognized and commemorated by the creation of the James Braid Society, a discussion group for those “ involved or concerned in the ethical uses of hypnosis .” The society meets once a month in central London, usually for a presentation on some aspect of hypnotherapy.

* Braid, J., " Physiological Explanation of Some Mesmeric Phenomena ", The Medical Times, Vol. 10, No. 258, ( 31 August 1844 ), pp. 450 – 451 ; reprinted as " Remarks on Mr. Simpson ’ s Letter on Hypnotism, published in the Phrenological Journal for July 1844 ", The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Vol. 17, No. 81, ( October 1844 ), pp. 359 – 365.

Neile, A. M., of Liverpool, in Reply to a Sermon Preached by Him in St. Jude ’ s Church, Liverpool, on Sunday, April 10, 1842, by James Braid, Surgeon, Manchester, Simms and Dinham, and Galt and Anderson, ( Manchester ), 1842.

Nebst Anmerkungen und einer nachgelassenen Abhandlung von Braid aus dem Jahre 1845 Lectures delivered at the Emperor Frederick William ’ s University at Berlin by W. Preyer.

* Simpson, J., " Letter from Mr. Simpson on Hypnotism, and Mr Braid ’ s Theory of Phreno-Mesmeric Manifestations ", The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Vol. 17, No. 80, ( July 1844 ), pp. 260 – 272.

* Hilda Braid – Florence Johnson ( Shirley ’ s Mother )

In 1850 Darling came from America to England, where he exhibited the phenomena of electro-biology ; their identity with those of Braid ’ s hypnotism was soon recognized.

Alan Fraser was relieved of his duties for failing to meet the ambitions of the United board just hours after the final League game of the season, which also proved to be long-serving Dessie Loughery ’ s last game as he made a controversial move to Coleraine after 11 years at the Braid.

Braid maintained an active interest in hypnotism until his death.

The original Victorian pioneers of hypnotism, including Braid and Bernheim, did not employ these concepts but considered hypnotic suggestions to be addressed to the subject's conscious mind.

Although he rejected the transcendental / metaphysical interpretation given to these phenomena outright, Braid accepted that these accounts of Oriental practices supported his view that the effects of hypnotism could be produced in solitude, without the presence of any other person ( as he had already proved to his own satisfaction with the experiments he had conducted in November 1841 ); and he saw correlations between many of the " metaphysical " Oriental practices and his own " rational " neuro-hypnotism, and totally rejected all of the fluid theories and magnetic practices of the mesmerists.

* Braid, J., Magic, Witchcraft, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, and Electro-Biology ; Being a Digest of the Latest Views of the Author on these Subjects ( Third Edition ), John Churchill, ( London ), 1852.

Even if it is probable that electrobiologists antecede Braid in the conception of their system it is probably after this European period of some of these electro-biologists that the name “ Hypnotism ” began to be used by electro-biologists as more pregnant as the old name of electro-biology.

Douglas Hofstadter, in his Pulitzer prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, explains that these " Gödel-statements " always refer to the system itself, similar to the way the Epimenides paradox uses statements that refer to themselves, such as " this statement is false " or " I am lying ".

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

Despite briefly toying with the name " rational Mesmerism ", Braid ultimately emphasised his approach's uniqueness, carrying out informal experiments throughout his career to refute the arguments invoking supernatural practices, and demonstrate instead the role of ordinary physiological and psychological processes such as suggestion and focused attention in producing the observed effects.

Indeed, the earliest theories and practices of hypnotism, even those of Braid, resemble the cognitive-behavioural orientation in some respects.

For example, Reserve Bank of India governor James Braid Taylor presided over the country's move from silver currency to fiat money.

In 1843 James Braid, a Scottish physician proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from magnetism but more limited in its claimed effects, and also different in its conception.

The words hypnosis and hypnotism both derive from the term neuro-hypnotism ( nervous sleep ) coined by the Scottish surgeon James Braid around 1841.

Braid quotes the following passage from Stewart:

Overall, Braid appears to have moved from a more " special state " understanding of hypnotism toward a more complex " nonstate " orientation.

James Braid, surgeon and pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy, practised in Dumfries from 1825 to 1828 in partnership with William Maxwell.

Braid adopted the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism " or nervous sleep ( that is, sleep of the nerves ), in his lectures of 1841-2, and it is from his influential work that others derived the term " hypnosis " in the 1880s.

Braid was apprenticed to Leith surgeons Charles Anderson ( i. e., both the father and the son ), and attended the University of Edinburgh from 1812 – 1814, where he was also influenced by Thomas Brown, M. D.

Braid moved to Manchester in 1828, continuing to practise from there until his death in 1860.

Braid thought of hypnotism as producing a " nervous sleep " which differed from ordinary sleep.

In April 2009, Robertson published a reconstructed English version, backward translated from the French, of Braid's last ( lost ) manuscript ( On Hypnotism ), addressed by Braid to the French Academy of Sciences.

), Neurypnologie: Traité du Sommeil Nerveux, ou, Hypnotisme par James Braid ; Traduit de l ' anglais par le Dr Jules Simon ; Avec preface de C. E. Brown-Séquard Treatise on Nervous Sleep or Hypnotism by James Braid, translated from the English by Dr. Jules Simon, with a preface by C. E.

Hypnosis originates from the practice of Mesmerism, being an attempt at what the surgeon James Braid described as " rational mesmerism ".

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Complacency from Telegdi's campaign along with hard work by Braid's campaign, his appeal to a wide range of voters including those in the suburbs, endorsement from popular local MPP Elizabeth Witmer, increased support for the local Green and NDP candidates, and a nation-wide surge for Harper's Conservatives combined to give Braid a narrow nail-biting victory of 73 votes on election night.

During the 14 May 2007 edition of Steve Wright in the Afternoon, guest Shane Ritchie referred to Old Woman as Nana Moon: a character from the soap EastEnders played by Hilda Braid.

Braid is an influential emo / post-hardcore band from Illinois that formed in 1993.

Nanna's other band, Friction, broke up in July 1994 after a short tour, turning Braid from a side project into the band members ' main focus.

With the summer open, Braid decided to reunite for one last tour of the U. S. from June to August, followed by a short tour of Japan.

The 1930 – 31 campaign was much the same as the previous season from the men from the Braid ( the river on which Ballymena stands ) as they scored goals freely but could only manage another fifth place finish for their efforts and remarkably a third consecutive Irish Cup final appearance.

* Volgyesi, F. A., " Discovery of Medical Hypnotism :— J. Braid: “ Satanic Agency and Mesmerism ”, etc.

The term “ hypnotism ” was coined and introduced by Braid.

In Braid's day, the Scottish School of Common Sense provided the dominant theories of academic psychology and Braid refers to other philosophers within this tradition throughout his writings.