Suggestive therapeuticsG.P. Putnam's sons, 1889 - 420 pages |
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Page 29 - From the moment when you set it before us as a duty to hand ourselves over to our lords on such and such a day, at such and such an hour, at a date and a minute fixed beforehand.
Page 199 - For example, a child is brought to me with a pain like muscular rheumatism in its arm dating back four or five days ; the arm is painful to pressure ; the child cannot lift it to its head. I say to him, " Shut your eyes, my child, and go to sleep." I hold his eyelids closed and go on talking to him. " You are asleep and you will keep on sleeping until I tell you to wake up. You are sleeping very well, as if you were in your bed ; you are perfectly well and comfortable ; your arms and legs and your...
Page 200 - I take my fingers off his eyelids, and they remain closed ; I put his arms up, and they remain so. Then, touching the painful arm, I say, ' The pain has gone away. You have no more pain anywhere ; you can move your arm without any pain ; and when you wake up you will not feel any more pain. It will not come back any more.
Page 7 - I define hypnotism as the induction of a peculiar psychical condition which increases the susceptibility to suggestion. Often, it is true, the sleep that may be induced facilitates suggestion, but it is not the necessary preliminary. It is suggestion that rules hypnotism.
Page ix - I begin by saying to the patient that I believe benefit is to be derived from the use of suggestive therapeutics ; that it is possible to cure or...
Page ix - ... any unusual sensation. When I have thus banished from his mind the idea of magnetism and the somewhat mysterious fear that attaches to that unknown condition, above all when he has seen patients cured or benefited by the means in question, he is no longer suspicious, but gives himself up, then I say, " Look at me and think of nothing but sleep. Your eyelids begin to feel heavy, your eyes tired. They begin to wink, they are getting moist, you cannot see distinctly. They are closed.
Page 108 - Ribaud and Kiaro, dentists of Poitiers. In spite of these fortunate trials, surgeons soon showed that hypnotism only rarely succeeds as an anaesthetic, that absolute insensibility is the exception among hypnotizable subjects, and that the hypnotizing itself generally fails in persons disturbed by the expectation of an operation.
Page x - Your lids are closing, you cannot open them again. Your arms feel heavy, so do your legs. You cannot feel anything. Your hands are motionless. You see nothing, you are going to sleep.' And I add in a commanding tone, 'Sleep.
Page 397 - Girdle-pain and pain in right groin, with difficulty in walking, for twenty months. Cure. 39. Insomnia, loss of appetite, mental depression, tremor. Cure. 40. Gloomy ideas. Insomnia, loss of appetite. Cure. 41. Insomnia through habit. Partial cure. 42. Cephalalgia, intellectual obnubilation. Cure. 43. Vertigo, moral depression connected with cardiac disease. Cure. 44. Laziness, disobedience, and loss of appetite in a child.
Page 184 - Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will nevertheless obtain the same effects.