Animal Magnetism. This is the theory offered by Mesmer, and those who hold it assume that "the hypnotizer exercises a force, independently of suggestion, over the subject. They believe one part of the body to be charged separately, or that the whole body may be filled with magnetism.They recognize the power, of suggestion, but they do not believe it to be the principal factor in the production of the hypnotic state."
Those who hold this theory today distinguish between the phenomena produced by magnetism and those produced by physical means or simple suggestion.
