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1 online resource (xvi, 420 pages) : illustrations |
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"In this book I only consider verbal suggestion and its application to therapeutics. Susceptibility to suggestion exists in the waking condition, but it is then either neutralized or restrained by the faculties of reason, attention and judgment. In spontaneous or in induced sleep these faculties are dull and weakened; imagination rules supreme; impressions are accepted without verification, and the brain transforms them into actions, sensations, movements and images. The psychical state thus modified and the new state of consciousness induced, render the brain more docile, more easily moulded, more susceptible on the one hand, and on the other more apt to react upon the functions and organs by inhibition or dynamogeny. It is this susceptibility increased by suggestion which we employ in the most efficacious way for a therapeutic end. Such are the principal ideas which the reader will find developed in this book. It contains beside a more complete study of a phenomenon of the highest importance from the social and judicial point of view, namely the phenomenon of retroactive hallucinations, which I was the first to mention and which was observed by M. Liǧeois, at the same time"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Print version record |
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Therapeutics, Suggestive.
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Hypnotism.
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Therapeutics.
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Therapeutics
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Hypnosis
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treating (health care function)
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Therapeutics
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Hypnotism
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Therapeutics, Suggestive
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Herter, Christian Archibald, 1865-1910.
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