Editing Autosuggestion (section)

==="Hypnosis" à la Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault and Hippolyte Bernheim===
In 1885, his investigations of [[hypnosis|hypnotism]] and the power of the [[imagination]] began with [[Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault]] and [[Hippolyte Bernheim]], two leading exponents of "''hypnosis''",<ref>As distinct from Braid's '''hypnotism''', Liébeault and Bernheim's '''hypnosis''' "used a laborious, monotonous, 'sleep, sleep, sleep' hypnotic induction — thus, his inappropriate, misleading, and ambiguous term ‘hypnosis’ — to produce [what Bernheim called] a “''charme''” (‘spellbound’) state" (Yeates, 2016a, pp.11-12).</ref> of Nancy, with whom he studied in 1885 and 1886 (having taken leave from his business in Troyes). Following this training, "he dabbled with ‘hypnosis’ in Troyes in 1886, but soon discovered that their Liébeault's techniques were hopeless, and abandoned ‘hypnosis’ altogether".<ref name="ONE">Yeates, 2016a, p.12.</ref>