COMPLETE HYPNOTISM IBD

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CONTENTSINTRODUCTION&mdash,History of hypnotism&mdash,Mesmer&mdash,Puysegur&mdash,Braid&mdash,What is hypnotism?&mdash,Theories of hypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism, 2. The Neurosis Theory, 3. Suggestion TheoryCHAPTER I&mdash,How to Hypnotize&mdash,Dr. Cocke',s method-Dr. Flint',s method&mdash,The French method at Paris&mdash,At Nancy&mdash,The Hindoo silent method&mdash,How to wake a subject from hypnotic sleep&mdash,Frauds of public hypnotic entertainments.CHAPTER II&mdash,Amusing experiments&mdash,Hypnotizing on the stage&mdash,You can',t pull your hands apart!&mdash,Post-hypnotic suggestion&mdash,The newsboy, the hunter, and the young man with the rag doll&mdash,A whip becomes hot iron&mdash,Courting a broom stick&mdash,The side-showCHAPTER III&mdash,The stages of hypnotism&mdash,Lethargy-Catalepsy&mdash,The somnambulistic stage&mdash,FascinationCHAPTER IV&mdash,How the subject feels under hypnotization&mdash,Dr. Cocke',s experience&mdash,Effect of music&mdash,Dr. Alfred Warthin',s experimentsCHAPTER V&mdash,Self hypnotization&mdash,How it may be done&mdash,An experience&mdash,Accountable for children',s crusade&mdash,Oriental prophets self- hypnotizedCHAPTER VI&mdash,Simulation&mdash,Deception in hypnotism very common&mdash,Examples of Neuropathic deceit&mdash,Detecting simulation&mdash,Professional subjects&mdash,How Dr. Luys of the Charity Hospital at Paris was deceived&mdash,Impossibility of detecting deception in all cases&mdash,Confessions of a professional hypnotic subjectCHAPTER VII&mdash,Criminal suggestion&mdash,Laboratory crimes&mdash,Dr. Cocke',s experiments showing criminal suggestion is not possible&mdash,Dr. William James', theory&mdash,A bad man cannot be made good, why expect to make a good man bad?CHAPTER VIII&mdash,Dangers in being hypnotized Condemnation of public performances&mdash,A commonsense view&mdash,Evidence furnished by Lafontaine, by Dr. Courmelles, by Dr. Hart, by Dr. Cocke&mdash,No danger in hypnotism if rightly used by physicians or scientistsCHAPTER IX&mdash,Hypnotism in medicine&mdash,Anesthesia&mdash,Restoring the use of muscles&mdash,Hallucination&mdash,Bad habitsCHAPTER X&mdash,Hypnotism of animals&mdash,Snake charmingCHAPTER XI&mdash,A scientific explanation of hypnotism&mdash,Dr. Hart',s theoryCHAPTER XII&mdash,Telepathy and Clairvoyance&mdash,Peculiar power in hypnotic state&mdash,Experiments&mdash,Phantasms of the living explained by telepathyCHAPTER XIII&mdash,The Confessions of a Medium&mdash,Spiritualistic phenomena explained on theory of telepathy&mdash,Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of the Psychical Research Society