Editing Hypnosis (section)

== Etymology ==
The words ''hypnosis'' and ''hypnotism'' both derive from the term ''neuro-hypnotism'' (nervous sleep), all of which were coined by [[Étienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers]] in the 1820s. The term ''hypnosis'' is derived from the [[ancient Greek]] ὑπνος ''hypnos'', "sleep", and the [[suffix]] -ωσις -''osis'', or from ὑπνόω ''hypnoō'', "put to sleep" ([[Word stem|stem]] of [[aorist]] ''hypnōs''-) and the suffix -''is''.<ref>''{{LSJ|u(/pnos|hypnos}}'', ''{{LSJ|u(pno/w|hypnoō|ref}}''.</ref><ref>{{OEtymD|hypnosis}}</ref> These words were popularised in [[English language|English]] by the [[Scotland|Scottish]] surgeon [[James Braid (surgeon)|James Braid]] (to whom they are sometimes wrongly attributed) around 1841.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Braid based his practice on that developed by [[Franz Mesmer]] and his followers (which was called "Mesmerism" or "[[animal magnetism]]"), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked.