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CONTENTS --History of hyptism--Mesmer--Puysegur--Braid--What is hyptism?--Theories of hyptism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis Theory; 3. Suggestion Theory --How to Hyptize--Dr. Cocke's method-Dr. Flint's method--The French method at Paris-- At Nancy--The Hindoo silent method--How to wake a subject from hyptic sleep--Frauds of public hyptic entertainments. --Amusing experiments--Hyptizing on the stage-- You can't pull your hands apart! --Post- hyptic suggestion--The newsboy, the hunter, and the young man with the rag doll--A whip becomes hot iron--Courting a broom stick--The side-show --The stages of hyptism--Lethargy-Catalepsy--The somnambulistic stage--Fascination --How the subject feels under hyptization--Dr. Cocke's experience--Effect of music--Dr. Alfred Warthin's experiments --Self hyptization--How it may be done--An experience--Accountable for children's crusade--Oriental prophets self- hyptized --Simulation--Deception in hyptism very common--Examples of Neuropathic deceit-- Detecting simulation--Professional subjects--How Dr. Luys of the Charity Hospital at Paris was deceived--Impossibility of detecting deception in all cases--Confessions of a professional hyptic subject --Criminal suggestion--Laboratory crimes--Dr. Cocke's experiments showing criminal suggestion is t possible--Dr. William James' theory--A bad man cant be made good, why expect to make a good man bad? --Dangers in being hyptized Condemnation of public performances--A commonsense view--Evidence furnished by Lafontaine; by Dr. Courmelles; by Dr. Hart; by Dr. Cocke--No danger in hyptism if rightly used by physicians or scientists --Hyptism in medicine--Anesthesia--Restoring the use of muscles--Hallucination--Bad habits --Hyptism of animals--Snake charming --A scientific explanation of hyptism--Dr. Hart's theory --Telepathy and Clairvoyance--Peculiar power in hyptic state--Experiments-- Phantasms of the living explained by telepathy --The Confessions of a Medium--Spiritualistic phemena explained on theory of telepathy-- Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of the Psychical Research SocietyProduct Identifiers
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-101541215478
ISBN-139781541215474
eBay Product ID (ePID)233139578
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SubjectPsychology: Professional & General
LanguageEnglish
AuthorA Alpheus
FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback
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Date of Publication20/12/2016
Country of PublicationUnited States
Content NoteBlack & White Illustrations
ImprintCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform