Yet because some doctors were influenced by Mesmer, therapeutic methods still managed to survive on the periphery. And in some university parapsychology classes, hypnosis is a formal research topic.
不過由於一些醫師受梅斯默療法影響，催眠也在主流的夾縫中生存了下來；有些大學的「超心理系」中還把催眠當作一個值得正式研究的課題。