Hypnotism
To many persons mention of the word “hypnotism” at once brings to mind a “Professor” in full-dress suit on a vaudeville stage putting “subjects” through laugh-provoking antics. Or the image of Svengali rises before the mind’s eyes, with long, lank fingers making mystic “passes...
To many persons mention of the word “hypnotism” at once brings to mind a “Professor” in full-dress suit on a vaudeville stage putting “subjects” through laugh-provoking antics....
2. CHAPTER 1.The story of the origin and development of hypnotism--or mesmerism, as it was once called--is not only interesting in itself, as history, but also helpful to a clear understandi...
3. CHAPTER 2.Modern methods of inducing complete hypnosis, or the suggestive semi-trance, vary with the temperament and training (theoretical convictions) of the hypnotist. Some employ the m...
4. CHAPTER 3.Let anyone who is skeptical concerning the power of mind over matter consider even a few of the many amazing phenomena of hypnotism. Public exhibitions of hypnotic experiments w...
5. CHAPTER 4.While Dr. Albert E. Davis utilizes psycho-analysis as an adjunct to hypnosis and suggestion, most psycho-analysts are opposed to the employment of suggestive therapeutics in any...
6. CHAPTER 5.The important rôle of suggestion in relation to social, religious and political phenomena is only beginning to be generally recognized. Louis Satow has performed a very useful s...
7. CHAPTER 6.Attention has already been directed to F. W. H. Myers’ theory of a conscious and a subconscious intelligence--a duality of mind in each individual. Hypnotism and suggestion oper...