Psycho-Therapeutics, or Treatment by Sleep and Suggestion
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Psycho-Therapeutics; or, Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion
These two volumes are, with the exception of one by Dr. Felkin recently noticed in this Journal, the only books as yet written by English authors on the subject of hypnotism. The former work, which has been greatly added to since its first appearance, is a bulky, fairly clear review of the many observations on, and theories concerning, the nature of the hypnotic state. The latter is, as its tit...
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articles contributed to the Edinburgh Medical Journal. After a review of the various opinions that have been held in England of late years concerning hypnotism, the author proceeds to describe the means used to hypnotise persons, dividing these, as is usually done, into those acting by mental suggestion and those acting by physical stimulation. In doing so, he does not clearly point out that mo...
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