Franz Mesmer the Man Behind Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy in Modern Era.

Franz Mesmer’s father was a forest warden and his mother was a daughter of a locksmith. Mostly in Mesmer’s childhood, he used to play in woodland and near rivers, his education started at the age of eight and went to Green Mountain Monastery and further went to the college of Jesuit, University of Konstanz.

At the age of sixteen, he studied Logic, Theology, and Metaphysics in the Dillingen school of Jesuit Theology. After that in the year 1754, he started to take classes in Philosophy, Mathematics, French, Physics, Latin, and Theology at the age of twenty in a Jesuit college, the University of Ingolstadt. After finishing his studies received his degree from a Doctor of Philosophy.

The Jesuit priest who trained Franz Mesmer was an astronomer Maximilian Hell, he used to attach magnets to his patients while treating them and Mesmer also used the same magnetic technique to cure Easterlin.

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