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| Marquis de Puységur |view · talk| Dr. Ambroise-Auguste
Liébeault (1823-1904) is the founder of the famous school that
became known as the Nancy School, or Suggestion School, (in
order to distinguish it from the Charcot and Salpêtrière
Hospital-centred Paris School, or Hysteria School) and is
considered by many to be the father of modern hypnotherapy. The
Nancy school held that hypnosis was a normal phenomenon induced
by suggestion, in contrast to the earlier schools of thought,
which considered hypnotic trances as manifestations of
magnetism, hysteria or psycho-physiological phenomenon.
Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault was born in Favières, a small town in
the Lorraine region of France, on September 16]], 1823. He
completed his medical degree at the University of Strasbourg in
1850 at the age of 26. He then established a practice in the
village of Pont-Saint-Vincent, near the town of Nancy.