Talk:James Braid (surgeon)

message: There are very very few citations in this article. I've marked where I would like to see some. 
LookingGlass (talk) 13:39, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Your statement that "the whole book was made available free of charge online" is not correct; in fact it is immediately obvious, following the link that you have provided that your book is not available as what Google calls "FULL VIEW", it is only available as what Google calls "LIMITED PREVIEW — and, as a consequence, many parts of the book can not be seen (and, moreover, can not be downloaded).
Each and every one of your own-book-promoting references were changed so that they directed readers to a particular page in either Braid's Neurypnology or Bramwell's Hypnotism, two works that were not only "fully readable", but, also, "fully downloadable". Perhaps, you could consider make the entire book a "FULL VIEW" and "fully downloadable" on Google; otherwise, the references to Braid and Bramwell must stand.
Also, not commercial?  "This book has been published to help raise the profile of NCH by spreading its name as publisher around the net"129.94.78.159 (talk) 06:56, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You seem to be adopting a bit of a hostile attitude for some reason, and you're also mistaken.  The whole book can be searched and read on Google, limited preview just means that there's a limit on how many pages you can view at a time, to prevent copying.  As mentioned above, NCH is a NON-profit organisation whereas, I think you'll find that most publishers are profit-making commercial enterprises.  I referenced content against my own complete edition of Braid's writings because it's the only version that's currently in print and because it contains material by Braid which is not in the edition of Neurypnology you're talking about. --HypnoSynthesis (talk) 21:02, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Available on line? 

message: Hostile attitude? Over the last few days I have added a number of historically important links that allow Wiki-readers to VIEW and DOWNLOAD an extended set of universally available references made up of both journal articles and published works that are available FREE of CHARGE, with UNLIMITED ACCESS, that are pertinent to understanding Braid and his work.Lindsay658 (talk) 01:53, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added references 

message: There are inconsistencies with the dates, in regards to the date he started the series of five public lectures and the writing of "Practical Essay on the Curative Agency of Neuro-Hypnotism", to the British Association (btw Association of what? Medicine ?)  --79.168.10.241 (talk) 23:55, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Substantial errors of fact (compounded by ambiguities of language)  in text now adjusted; and, from this, all "inconsistencies" have been eliminated. Lindsay658 (talk) 02:16, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates 

message: Though very thorough as an historical treatise, one goes begging when searching for the nature and origins of the actual "hypnotizing" techniques.  It would seem the articles reference to the subject's focusing on an object, etc. suggests the classic "spinning watch" technique.  But it doesn't indicate how Braid happened upon this phenomenon, or whether it was an outgrowth of the work of another.
Nor is there any reference to any application, medical, psychological or otherwise, of this new "science" other than a generic reference to a "remedy to functional nervous disorders."  I assume that he did not subscribe to the "cluck like a chicken and take your pants off"  aspect of hypnotism.
It seems the author concentrated so intently on  (you are feeling sleeeeepppyyy . . .) the minutiae of Braid's life and work that he lost sight of the big picture and most basic questions of the reader looking for answers about hypnotism itself.
(Jackronner (talk) 03:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article does not describe the technique to induce the hypnotic state, nor its applications 

message: I have removed the following paragraph.
:::In this booklet, (viz., Satanic Agency and Mesmerism) Braid uses the terms "neurohypnotism", "hypnotic", and "neurohypnology", perhaps for the first time (rather than in his 1843 work, Neurypnology, as is often asserted). However, he seems to have used "Neuro-Hypnotism" in the title of his unpublished report rejected by the British Association, and read at his own public lectures, as early as November or December 1841.
It is factually incorrect in a number of places; and, in particular, its significant error in relation to the rejection of his "report" by the British Association (which, in fact, took place on Saturday, 25 June 1842). It seems that the misapprehension arises from a mis-reading of page 2 of Braid's Neurypnology -- despite the fact that Braid gave the precise date that his Essay was rejected on page 1 of the same work.Dr Lindsay B Yeates (talk) 05:01, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in article 

message: The section "Hugh M'Neile's "Satanic Agency and Mesmerism" sermon" has a markedly unencyclopaedic tone.--Nø (talk) 09:58, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unencylopaedic tone 

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