Word: mesmerize
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...many other oddly simple cures are credited to the foxy grandpa of American hypnotism, Milton H. Erickson. At 71, Erickson stands in the forefront of a revival of hypnotherapy-in eclipse since Freud rejected it as too superficial and impermanent. "Erickson is the most innovative practitioner of hypnosis since Mesmer," says Dr. Thomas Hackett, chief of the psychiatric consultation service at Massachusetts General Hospital. Although Erickson sometimes uses deep hypnotic trances to work his will on his psychiatric patients, he often limits himself to straightforward commands. He does not, however, explain the exact psychological mechanism behind his cures...
...There were a host of more serious problems. Mrs. Baer had to give up a $600-a-month night job to look after her teen-age daughter during her husband's absence. Mrs. Jean Roseland, 41, an ash-blonde mother of three teenagers, lost her office job. Marie Mesmer, 45, a former Los Angeles drama critic and a divorcee, had no one to look after her house. It was burglarized twice, and her chimney collapsed during the February earthquake...
...imperialism for their involvement in what appears to be an exceedingly poor country? African specialists point out that there may be two reasons. Chad is of strategic military importance serving as the center of a French communications and military network. Former French Minister of the Armed Forces Pierre Mesmer once boasted that France could dispatch a regiment of paratroopers anywhere in Africa within 24 hours. (The 1963 coup in Gabon was reversed within a day by French paratroopers believed to have been airlifted from Fort Lamy...
...York, and was finished here during February and March. Shea has had teaching jobs in both places. He read Lermontov's book long ago. And why this particular choice for the subject of his play? "It's good story." Shea already has another play planned, the story of Anton Mesmer. In it, the spiritualist will appear as Jesus in another play-within-the-play...
...establishment includes an eight-room apartment, five reception rooms, and two secretaries. Substantial success is common among Italy's wizards, who offer their clients counsel, clairvoyance and, at higher fees, "the art of magnetic fluids," said by 18th century German Physician Friedrich Mesmer to circulate in the universe, available for good or evil. Nearly every village has its specialist in the occult, and the Magician of Mon-tefredane, a small town near Naples, was wizard enough to get himself elected mayor. Occasionally, the magnetism goes too far, as in the case of a Milanese operator currently on trial...