Hypnotism or Suggestion and Psychotherapy
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Notwithstanding the fact that many British Physicians have recourse to "suggestion" in the treatment of functional disorder, yet few are openly willing to admit that psychotherapy has played a part in their methods. Such reticence is doubtless largely the outcome of a very natural dread of being placed in the same category with quacks and imposters (styling themselves spiritualists), who bring mesmerism and allied methods into disrepute and suspicion by ostensibly attributing their obviously illusive showphenomena to the effects of those methods. The
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