Let him take his stand at one of the modern centres of hypnotic practice,--in Professor Bernheim's…
Let him take his stand at one of the modern centres of hypnotic practice,--in Professor Bernheim's hospital-ward, or Dr
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Steric; or concentrate attention, as it is concentrated for the somnambulist; or change the tastes and…
steric; or concentrate attention, as it is concentrated for the somnambulist; or change the tastes and passions, as these are changed in alternating personalities; or (best of all) recover and fix something of that supernormal faculty of which we have caught f
Read record →The first name that must be mentioned is, of course, that of Mesmer himself
The first name that must be mentioned is, of course, that of Mesmer himself
Read record →Results which no one else has been able to produce; and the state which it induced appeared in his view to…
results which no one else has been able to produce; and the state which it induced appeared in his view to arrest and dissipate even maladies of which neither hypnotist nor patient had thought as capable of cure
Read record →A general consensus of hypnotic practice--threw aside more and more decisively the supposed "somatic signs" of…
a general consensus of hypnotic practice--threw aside more and more decisively the supposed "somatic signs" of Charcot,--the phenomena of neuro-muscular irritability and the like, which he regarded as the requisite proof of hypnosis;--until Bernheim boldly aff
Read record →"Hypnotic trance," says Bernheim, in effect, "is ordinary sleep; hypnotic suggestion is ordinary command
"Hypnotic trance," says Bernheim, in effect, "is ordinary sleep; hypnotic suggestion is ordinary command
Read record →According to Bernheim we are all naturally suggestible, and what we want to effect through suggestion is…
According to Bernheim we are all naturally suggestible, and what we want to effect through suggestion is increased suggestibility
Read record →It is doubtful, however, whether any of these sudden disablements should be classed as true hypnoses
It is doubtful, however, whether any of these sudden disablements should be classed as true hypnoses
Read record →There is no doubt that this sleep does in certain subjects follow instantly upon the pressure of certain…
There is no doubt that this sleep does in certain subjects follow instantly upon the pressure of certain spots,--constant for each subject, but different for one subject and for another;--and this without any conscious co-operation, or even foreknowledge, on t
Read record →Here, then, we come to an important conclusion which cannot well be denied, yet is seldom looked fully in the…
Here, then, we come to an important conclusion which cannot well be denied, yet is seldom looked fully in the face
Read record →Self-suggestion, whatever this may really mean, is thus in most cases, whether avowedly or not, at the bottom…
Self-suggestion, whatever this may really mean, is thus in most cases, whether avowedly or not, at the bottom of the effect produced
Read record →These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most interesting parts of my…
These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most interesting parts of my subject, but space forbids that I should enter into a discussion of them here
Read record →Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as…
Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as to the ultimate origin and distribution of the faculty thus displayed
Read record →The hint which I have to offer here involves, I hope, something more than a mere change of appellation
The hint which I have to offer here involves, I hope, something more than a mere change of appellation
Read record →As a general rule (though with numerous exceptions), the events of ordinary life are remembered in the trance,…
As a general rule (though with numerous exceptions), the events of ordinary life are remembered in the trance, while the trance events are forgotten on waking, but tend to recur to the memory on rehypnotisation
Read record →We thus experience in ourselves a strange conflict between moral responsibility and molecular affinities;--the…
We thus experience in ourselves a strange conflict between moral responsibility and molecular affinities;--the central will overborne by dumb unnumbered elements of our being
Read record →Even for the slave of morphia the same sudden freedom is sometimes achieved
Even for the slave of morphia the same sudden freedom is sometimes achieved
Read record →Now the removal of shyness, or mauvaise honte, which hypnotic suggestion can effect, is in fact a purgation of…
Now the removal of shyness, or mauvaise honte, which hypnotic suggestion can effect, is in fact a purgation of memory,--inhibiting the recollection of previous failures, and setting free whatever group of aptitudes is for the moment required
Read record →There is a selection of ideas to which the hypnotic subject will attend, and there is a concentration upon the…
There is a selection of ideas to which the hypnotic subject will attend, and there is a concentration upon the idea thus selected; but those ideas themselves may be both complex and constantly shifting, and indeed this is just one of the ways in which the hypn
Read record →(1) In the first place, it seems clear that when pain is inhibited in any but the most simple cases, a certain…
(1) In the first place, it seems clear that when pain is inhibited in any but the most simple cases, a certain group of changes is produced whose nexus is psychological rather than physiological
Read record →Yet we possess (strangely enough) what seems direct evidence that the profoundest organic substratum of our…
Yet we possess (strangely enough) what seems direct evidence that the profoundest organic substratum of our being is by suggestion wholly freed from pain
Read record →The stratum of self whose business it is to correct the mechanical defect of the eye has in these instances…
The stratum of self whose business it is to correct the mechanical defect of the eye has in these instances done so amiss, and cannot set itself right
Read record →Mentary state of our study of hypnotism is somewhat strangely illustrated by the fact that most of the…
mentary state of our study of hypnotism is somewhat strangely illustrated by the fact that most of the experiments which show hyperæsthesia most delicately have been undertaken with a view of proving something else--namely, mesmeric rapport, or the mesmerisati
Read record →Let us now consider the evidence for heteræsthesia;--for the existence, that is to say, under hypnotic…
Let us now consider the evidence for heteræsthesia;--for the existence, that is to say, under hypnotic suggestion, of any form of sensibility decidedly different from those with which we are familiar
Read record →First, then, as to the effects of suggestion on the vaso-motor system
First, then, as to the effects of suggestion on the vaso-motor system
Read record →This delicate responsiveness of the vaso-motor system has given rise to some curious spontaneous phenomena, and…
This delicate responsiveness of the vaso-motor system has given rise to some curious spontaneous phenomena, and has suggested some experiments, which are probably as yet in their infancy
Read record →The hypnotiser has coughed three times, the awakened subject, although knowing nothing of the order in his…
the hypnotiser has coughed three times, the awakened subject, although knowing nothing of the order in his waking state, will be on the look-out for the coughs, amid all other disturbances, and will poke the fire at the fore-ordained signal.[82] Moreover, when
Read record →Other persons present endeavour to attract his attention in various ways
Other persons present endeavour to attract his attention in various ways
Read record →Another indication of the subliminal power at work to produce these hallucinations is their remarkable range--a…
Another indication of the subliminal power at work to produce these hallucinations is their remarkable range--a range as wide, perhaps, as that over which therapeutic effects are obtainable by suggestion
Read record →Two main hypotheses have been put forward as a general explanation of such cases, neither of which seems to me…
Two main hypotheses have been put forward as a general explanation of such cases, neither of which seems to me quite satisfactory
Read record →My own suggestion (which, for aught I know, may have been made before) is that the finger-end is no more a true…
My own suggestion (which, for aught I know, may have been made before) is that the finger-end is no more a true organ of sight than the arbitrary "hypnogenous zone" is a true organ for inducing trance
Read record →It will be remembered that for convenience' sake I have discussed the dynamogenic effect of suggestion first…
It will be remembered that for convenience' sake I have discussed the dynamogenic effect of suggestion first upon the external senses, then upon the internal sensibility,--the mind's eye, the mind's ear, and the imagination generally;--and now I am turning to
Read record →To explain this statement, let us dwell for a moment upon the degree of intelligence which is sometimes…
To explain this statement, let us dwell for a moment upon the degree of intelligence which is sometimes displayed in those modifications of the organism which suggestion effects
Read record →Somewhat similarly I believe some persons can secure a cheap substitute for genius on stage or platform,…
Somewhat similarly I believe some persons can secure a cheap substitute for genius on stage or platform, evoking by suggestion or self-suggestion a helpful subliminal uprush
Read record →And now let us pass on from these specialised influences of suggestion on certain kinds of attention to its…
And now let us pass on from these specialised influences of suggestion on certain kinds of attention to its influence on attention generally, as needed, for instance, in education
Read record →In passing on from the influence of suggestion on attention to its influence on will, I am not meaning to draw…
In passing on from the influence of suggestion on attention to its influence on will, I am not meaning to draw any but the most every-day distinction between these two forms of inward concentration
Read record →It has been supposed that the mere fact of being hypnotised tended to weaken the will; that the hypnotised…
It has been supposed that the mere fact of being hypnotised tended to weaken the will; that the hypnotised person fell inevitably more and more under the control of the hypnotiser, and even that he could at last be induced to commit crimes by suggestion
Read record →And here we approach a point of much interest
And here we approach a point of much interest
Read record →The next stage is a very important one
The next stage is a very important one
Read record →Before leaving this subject of spontaneous sleep-waking states I ought briefly to mention a form of trance with…
Before leaving this subject of spontaneous sleep-waking states I ought briefly to mention a form of trance with which we shall have to deal more at length in a later chapter
Read record →T place one may say that of the anti-mesmeric schools of opinion, the "purely physiological" school has on the…
t place one may say that of the anti-mesmeric schools of opinion, the "purely physiological" school has on the whole failed, the "purely suggestive" school has triumphantly succeeded
Read record →I reply that there is absolutely no need to go as far as this
I reply that there is absolutely no need to go as far as this
Read record →In Bernheim's rapid hospital practice there seems no opportunity to bring the hypnotist's will, or the…
In Bernheim's rapid hospital practice there seems no opportunity to bring the hypnotist's will, or the hypnotiser's organism, into any effective rapport with the subject
Read record →I have cited first this experiment at a distance, without attempting to analyse the nature of the suggestion…
I have cited first this experiment at a distance, without attempting to analyse the nature of the suggestion given or power employed by the hypnotist
Read record →We have just seen that the subliminal state of the hypnotised subject may be approached by ways subtler than…
We have just seen that the subliminal state of the hypnotised subject may be approached by ways subtler than mere verbal suggestion--by telepathic impacts and perhaps by some effluence of kindred supernormal type
Read record →The next group of cases to which I pass relate chiefly to knowledge of present facts
The next group of cases to which I pass relate chiefly to knowledge of present facts
Read record →The schemes of self-suggestion which have actually been found effective have covered, not unnaturally, a range…
The schemes of self-suggestion which have actually been found effective have covered, not unnaturally, a range as wide as all the superstition and all the religion of men
Read record →S there will be an essential concordance between all views--spiritual or materialistic--which ascribe to any…
s there will be an essential concordance between all views--spiritual or materialistic--which ascribe to any direction of attention or will any practical effect upon the human organism
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