hypnotizer
English
Etymology
Noun
hypnotizer (plural hypnotizers)
- One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
- 2008 January 20, George Prochnik, “Freud’s Family Tree”, in The New York Times Book Review[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 June 2022:
- We also encounter Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s first mentor in Paris, who charted the stages of hysteria and proposed that the power of hypnosis depended upon the abnormal nervous condition of the hypnotized, not the magus-like potency of the hypnotizer.