Suggestion and Pain

Effects of suggestion on d' and Cx for pain detection and pain tolerance.

It has been demonstrated that suggestion directed toward eliciting fewer reports of detection of minimal pain and suggestion directed toward greater pain tolerance (fewer withdrawals) altered the response probabilities in the expected direction and in addition raised both the pain detection and pain tolerance thresholds to thermal stimulation. However, sensory decision theory analysis of the sa...

A Suggestion on Suggestion

Fibromyalgia pain and its modulation by hypnotic and non-hypnotic suggestion: an fMRI analysis.

The neuropsychological status of pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, commonly categorized as 'psychosomatic' or 'functional' disorders, remains controversial. Activation of brain structures dependent upon subjective alterations of fibromyalgia pain experience could provide an insight into the underlying neuropsychological processes. Suggestion following a hypnotic induction can readily modula...

Hypnotism and Suggestion

Suggestion.?By L. Tuckky. Demy 8voPages xiv and 413. Price 21 jnet. London, 1921: Bail,ue;re, Tindaij, and Cox. This book has reached the Seventh Edition and so has obviously been very popular. .The reason for its popularity will be apparent to all who read the volume. It contains numerous accounts of interesting cases in which treatment by suggestion has been of service. These are given ' with...

Advanced Suggestion

an unthought-of pinnacle of success and his system beats all other methods of treatment by suggestion or indeed anything else clean out of the field. Nine-tenths of his book is taken up with illustrative cases of cures, and we read with wonder of chronic eczemas, diabetes, disorders of menstruation, and even new growths disappearing at the word of command. Nor is surgery forgotten, for haemorrh...