At the time when the craftsmen and industrialists Emile Gallé, Louis Majorelle, Eugène Vallin, Etienne Corbin, launched at the end of the 19th century without being aware of its scope, the School of Nancy which imposed the city as the French capital of Art New, another school stood out as a reference in a completely different field, that of psychiatry.
In medicine, the Nancy school also became known as the school of suggestion. Supported by Drs Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault, Hippolyte Bernheim, Henri Beaunis and the jurist Jules Liégeois and the doctor Henri Beaunis, it has, with (or rather against) the Ecole de la Salpêtrière embodied by Professor Charcot, exerted a decisive influence on the development of clinical hypnosis, psychology and psychotherapy.
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The partisans of Liébeault seeing in hypnosis a simple sleep produced by suggestion and susceptible of therapeutic applications and those of Charcot considering that hypnosis is a specific pathological state specific to hysterics.
During this golden age of the development of hypnosis, which lasted from 1882 to 1892, Sigmund Freud even came to Nancy to observe the work of his colleagues.
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