Hypnotism in mental and moral culture /

"This volume is not issued in illustration or in defence of the therapeutic efficiency of hypnotism--of the value of induced somnambulism in the treatment of physical disease. The author is under the necessity of confining himself largely to a consideration of the importance of suggestive treat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quackenbos, John D. (John Duncan), 1848-1926
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Harper & Bros., 1901.
Series:Ebsco PsychBooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is hypnosis and how is it induced?
  • Auto-suggestion.
  • Auto-suggestion as the Modus curandi of Christian and mental science.
  • Auto-suggestion and faith.
  • Moral reform effected by hypnotism in contrast with conversion involving moral reform. The ethical victory.
  • Suggestion and responsibility.
  • Morale use of hypnotism. Suggestion in the treatment of the cigarette habit.
  • Dipsomania, opsomania, morphinomania.
  • Kleptomania and habitual falsehood.
  • Disequalibration, or mental unbalance: Moral anæsthesia.
  • Hypnotic suggestion in the treatment of speech defects.
  • Imperative ideas, delusions, melancholia, insanity, and loss of memory as conditions amenable to hypnotic treatment.
  • Educational use of hypnotic suggestion. Its value in the training of erratic, backward, and unmanageable children.
  • Hypnotic suggestion in the inspiration of writers, and of men and women of the stage.
  • Hypnotic suggestion in the development of voice and of musical talent.
  • Compulsory hypnotism.
  • Conclusions reached.
  • Limitations of hypnotism.