Hippolyte Bernheim

Sigmund Freud visited the Nancy School and learned the technique of posthypnotic suggestion from Liébeault and Bernheim .

During the 1890s Hippolyte Bernheim of the University of Nancy in Alsace-Lorraine challenged Jean-Martin Charcot 's idea that hysteria was a physical ailment; Bernheim argued that hysteria should be considered a psychological problem.