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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| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Harper & Bros.,
1901.
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| 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.