mesmerism

noun3

1. •
   The method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions.

   • What is the secret mesmerism which friendship possesses, and under the operation of which a person ordinarily sluggish, or cold, or timid, becomes wise, active, and resolute, in another's behalf? — 1847
2. •
   The theory and practice of Mesmer himself or his disciples, which involved hypnosis and a superstructure of theory that included animal magnetism.
3. •
   The state induced by hypnotic methods (especially those of Mesmer himself).