Hypnotism; Or, Suggestion and Psychotherapy: A Study of the Psychological, Psycho-physiological and Therapeutic Aspects of Hypnotism

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Rebman, 1906 - Hypnotism - 323 pages
 

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Page 191 - Elle se manifeste principalement par des troubles primitifs et accessoirement par quelques troubles secondaires. Ce qui caractérise les troubles primitifs, c'est qu'il est possible de les reproduire par suggestion avec une exactitude rigoureuse chez certains sujets et de les ' faire disparaître sous l'influence exclusive de la persuasion.
Page 116 - Blind automatic obedience of the hypnotized is never complete; suggestion always has its limits, which are sometimes wider and sometimes narrower, and may vary considerably in the same individual. The hypnotized person protects himself in two ways: consciously by means of his reasoning logic, and unconsciously by autosuggestion. I lift the arm of a hypnotized and say that it is stiff. He struggles to bring it down, straining vigorously, and ultimately succeeds. Still, the feeling of the exertion...
Page 3 - Die Mneme als erhaltendes Prinzip im Wechsel des organischen Geschehens
Page 364 - I forgot my resolve for an instant during talking not to take any notice of the plate, which I was supposed to place somewhere else, I suddenly found myself fixing this object with my eyes. The thought of what I had been ordered to do worried me until I went to sleep, and when I was in bed I nearly got up again to carry it out, merely to ease my mind.
Page 97 - Bechterew, however, takes an opposite view,2 and believes that hypnosis is nothing but a modification of normal sleep, although he is compelled to admit that ordinary normal sleep in most people reaches such a depth that the influence of suggestion is impossible. The more we study the question, the...
Page 313 - At times it acts by accelerating and at times by inhibiting. It either adds to or subtracts from the action of the drug. But in a large number of cases it actually forms the only therapeutic agent. Both doctors and patients have been deceived about the specific action of numerous drugs from the earliest times, and the scientific development of therapeutics has suffered considerably in consequence. I do not deny that the more ' enlightened ' formerly realized the matter more or less, and recognised...
Page 124 - I was simply forced to do it ; I don't know why.' A fourth says : ' I got the idea that I ought to do it.
Page 336 - Bemheim and I are at one in this. The contradictions which one accuses them of are not always conscious lies : they are not seldom the results of suggestion.
Page 63 - Dictator.' /•By suggestion (dictation) one means the production of a dynamic change in the nervous system of a person, or of such functions which depend on his nervous system, by another person by means of the calling forth of representations (be they conceived or unconceived) that such a change is taking place, has taken place, or will take place.
Page 186 - ... not as a passive state, but as an active instinct, like all the other instincts of animal life. To put it in his own words : "Le sommeil n'est pas un etat purement negatif, passif, il n'est pas la consequence d'un simple arret de fonctionnement: il est un fonction positive, un acte de ordre reflexe, un instinct, qui a pour but cet arret de fonctionnement; ce n'est pas parce que nous sommes intoxiques, ou epuises, que nous dormons, mais nous dormons pour ne pas 1'etre.

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