Treatment By Hypnotism And Suggestion Or Psycho-Therapeutics | by Charles Lloyd Tuckey
The Nancy treatment has during the last few years attracted so much interest among men of science and members of the medical profession on the Continent, that it seems strange the knowledge of it in this country is almost entirely theoretical. The system of psycho-therapeutics has so far attained its fullest development in Holland, where in every large town it is followed by at least one well-qualified practitioner; while in Germany, Russia, Sweden, and, indeed, every European country, its position is secured by the support of leading physicians, and by the success attending their practice...
| Title | Treatment By Hypnotism And Suggestion Or Psycho-Therapeutics |
| Author | Charles Lloyd Tuckey |
| Publisher | Bailliere, Tindall And Cox |
| Year | 1913 |
| Copyright | 1913, Bailliere, Tindall And Cox |
| Amazon | Treatment By Hypnotism And Suggestion, Or Psycho-Therapeutics |
By C. Lloyd Tuckey, M.D. Aberd. Membre Fondateur De La Societe D'hypnologie; Honorary Member Of The American Society For The Study And Cure Of Inebriety First President Of The Psycho-Medical Society
Sixth Edition, Revised And Enlarged
With A Foreword By Sir Francis R. Cruise, M.D., D.L., K.S.G., Honorary Physician To The King In Ireland; And A Chapter On Professor Freud's Theories And Treatment By Psycho-Analysis, By Dr. Constance Long, President Of The Association Of Registered Medical Women. 1911-1913
To The Memory Of Dr. Liebeault, Of Nancy, In Admiration Of His Genius, This Book, The Outcome Of His Teaching, Is Gratefully Dedicated
Preface To The Sixth Edition- The fifth edition being exhausted, I have prepared a sixth and probably final one. During the six years which have elapsed since the last edition steady progress has been made in the spread of profess...
- Preface To The First Edition
- In bringing forward this little book on Treatment by Suggestion, I feel that, though I must crave indulgence for the shortcomings of the writer, no apology is necessary for introducing so important a ...
- Foreword
- By Sir FRANCIS R. CRUISE, M.D. Dr. Charles Lloyd Tuckey asks me to write a short introductory chapter to the fifth edition of his truly monumental work on 'Psycho-Therapeutics, or Treatment by Hypnot...
- Foreword. Part 2
- There were to be seen countless phases of disease, affecting men and women of all ages and many children. His procedure was as follows: He placed the patients in turn in an easy reclining chair, with ...
- Foreword. Part 3
- M. Bernheim does not for a moment pretend that hypnotism can cure organic diseases, such as cancer, phthisis, paralysis from cerebral effusion, with destruction of motor centres; but even in such case...
- Foreword. Part 4
- Thus far I have drawn a very imperfect sketch of what I saw at Nancy with Drs. Liebeault and Bernheim, and I must now leave them. When parting, M. Bernheim gave me a few words of advice, kindly and em...
- Chapter I. Introduction
- It is desirable to set forth clearly the genesis of the present revival of psycho-therapeutics, lest, as sometimes happens, unassuming merit be deprived of the honour due to it, and other claims arise...
- Introduction. Part 2
- The following list gives a few of the more important books and papers recently published on hypnotic suggestion: Liebcault: ' Therapeutique Suggestive, son Mechanisme,' etc., Paris, 1891. Bernheim: ...
- Introduction. Part 3
- The Society for Psychical Research has done, and is doing, much good work in the scientific investigation of hypnotism, and its members were among the first persons in this country to recognize its im...
- Chapter II. Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body
- Examples showing the Power of the Mind over the Body. - Anaesthesia produced by the Imagination without Chloroform. - Cures effected by the Imagination and by Mental Emotions. - Illness and Functional...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 2
- On the other hand, Sir W. Goodhart mentions the case of a hysterical woman who consulted a doctor about her health. He examined her chest, and, thinking he detected signs of phthisis, expressed great ...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 3
- A rudimentary knowledge of electricity is sufficient to assure us that the vast majority of popular electrical appliances - such as belts and pads - are absolutely inert, and that the good they undoub...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 4
- On the other hand, it is possible for an apparently quite healthy person to develop, by pure imagination, the symptoms of serious illness. Laymen who dabble in medical science, and medical students at...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 5
- * Op. cit., p. 112. Liebeault quotes several authors to prove that many persons seem to have had the power of so dominating their bodies by the force of will that they succeeded in keeping off illnes...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 6
- Sir James Paget thinks that by nervous excitement the temperature may be raised to at least 1010 F. (from the normal 98.5 F.); and Professor Wunderlich says on the same subject: * 'In hysterical ...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 7
- In subsequent pages I shall detail some experiments to show how greatly the will acting through suggestion is able to modify the action of the heart in hypnosis, but such modifying influence is not ne...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 8
- For this same reason, touching for the king's evil did no doubt effect many cures. The royal progresses were announced some time beforehand, and the sufferers along their route had often weeks in whic...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 9
- The curative effect does not always depend upon the truth of the tenets preached, for false prophets have also been successful healers. For instance, Brigham Young had a great reputation in that line ...
- Examples Showing The Power Of The Mind Over The Body. Part 10
- But it is unnecessary to multiply instances showing the influence of the mental states over bodily functions, as everyone must have numberless examples of it in his own person. Mental discouragement a...
- Chapter III. Power Of Mind And Body Increased By Concentration Of Attention And Energy
- Power of Mind and Body increased by Concentration of Attention and Energy. - Suppression of One Faculty tends to increase the Development of Others. - Concentration of Mind on One Idea in Somnambulism...
- Power Of Mind And Body Increased By Concentration Of Attention And Energy. Part 2
- Concentration of mind upon intellectual or physical action is usually possible only in our waking and wakeful moments. Fatigue of brain renders us incapable of it: and in sleep, the natural consequenc...
- Power Of Mind And Body Increased By Concentration Of Energy And Attention. Part 3
- Dreams merging into somnambulism may produce tragic results. Dr. G. Tourdes * relates how a man sleeping beside his wife dreamed that she was a robber whom he must kill. He accordingly attempted to su...
- Chapter IV. Dr. Liebeault, Of Nancy
- Dr. Liebeault, of Nancy. - Description of his Treatment. - System free from Mysticism. - Curative Suggestions. - Explanation of the Phenomena. - Definition of Hypnotism. - Absolute Sleep or Unconsciou...
- Dr. Liebeault, Of Nancy. Part 2
- If the hypnotic sleep has been profound, it may be necessary twice or thrice to repeat the order to awake, and even to enforce it by fanning the patient, or blowing gently upon his eyes; but the simpl...
- Dr. Liebeault, Of Nancy. Part 3
- We may imagine in such a case, and the surmise would probably be physiologically correct, that the nervous channels are blocked to ordinary impulses sent to them from the brain, but that the extraordi...
- Dr. Liebeault, Of Nancy. Part 4
- Though I have completely failed to find these three stages in any of my somnambulic subjects, and though the experience of most observers is of an equally negative character, I am not prepared to say ...
- Dr. Liebeault, Of Nancy. Part 5
- Portion of the ' uninfluenced ' but little larger, and the experience of Berillon in Paris, Moll in Berlin, Wetter-strand in Stockholm, Bramwell, Betts Taplin, Creed, Kingsbury, Wingfield, Cruise, Wri...
- Chapter V. Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment
- Psycho-Therapeutics not an Exclusive System of Treatment. - Some Diseases found to benefit from it. - Organic Processes affected by Hypnotic Suggestion. - Blisters and Stigmata so caused. - Treatment ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 2
- The cure (Dr. Buchanan adds) appears permanent, for she was quite well eight years afterwards. The other case he cites is one of ' hysterical knee,' which had been diagnosed and treated as disease of ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 3
- But function depends upon blood-supply in the first place, and it follows that by influencing the trophic and vaso-motor centres we must affect and control not only psychical processes, but the motor ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 4
- Professor Krafft-Ebing, in his remarkable monograph on the case of Ilma Szandor, a young Hungarian girl of extremely hysterical type, gives an account of many experiments he performed on her. He was a...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 5
- The effects of suggestion are not necessarily temporary and immediate, but may be caused to appear hours, days, and in some cases months, after the suggestion has been given. Bernheim cites several in...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 6
- This illustrates the fact, which cannot be too cogently impressed on the reader, that hypnotism does not induce a new condition, nor work on perfectly novel lines to the extent which is often supposed...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 7
- The underlying cause of this dream was afterwards explained by an old nurse, who related that she had charge of the lady when an infant of about a year old, and left her asleep in a cradle in a room o...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 8
- There is one class of cases for which hypnotic treatment offers particularly good prospects of relief. The exhausted brain-worker, whose nervous system is in a painful state of erethism, will here fin...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 9
- Dr. Sturges, for instance, cites the case of a young lady who was a chronic invalid, and suffered greatly from internal neuralgia. There appeared to be no objective disease, but inquiry revealed that ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 10
- A recent case presents many points of interest. The patient was a weaver from the North, and he was sent to me by his clergyman. The poor man was unable to do his work, and suffered from sleeplessness...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 11
- In many cases the good is thus so overshadowed and hidden by the evil that its presence is overlooked. Hypnotism, at any rate, enables us, under favourable conditions, to suppress the evil, and thus g...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 12
- In such examples one would say that there are two separate entities dwelling within a single bodily form, and that one of these can be brought out and developed, while the other is so absolutely suppr...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 13
- These two contrary conditions, evil and good, were by his physicians called his first and second states, and from them several intermediate and varying states could be produced. His 'fifth state' was ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 14
- A few years ago I met with a curious case of double personality. The patient is a bank clerk, aged forty, with a record of over twenty years' satisfactory service. He left the bank one Friday after lu...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 15
- To show the conflict of personality: on one occasion as X------3 she tore up and threw away a bundle of banknotes so as to annoy and embarrass X------ 1. In her normal state she knew nothing of this, ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 16
- Auguste Voisin used to keep some of his patients for long periods of time in a state of altered personality; and there is no doubt but that in affecting moral reformation we do not so much create new ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 17
- Berillon, * as Government Medical Inspector of Public Asylums in France, has great facilities for studying abnormal children, and he has employed hypnotic suggestion largely in correcting vicious tend...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 18
- In course of time the new personality, induced by suggestion and encouraged by religious ministration and teaching, will displace the old, and a complete moral revolution will be the result. One is f...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 19
- Dr. Semal, in the discussion on hypnotism in the Belgian Academy of Medicine (June 30, 1888), having condemned the prostitution of the system by travelling prestidigitateurs and charlatans, spoke stro...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 20
- On the occasion of an academic discussion on hypnotism at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, at Birmingham, in 1890, I read extracts from letters I had received from the best-known...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 21
- If a patient should take it into her head to imagine that one was having an undue personal influence over her, as in the case referred to on p. 121, the course to adopt is plain. The physician should ...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 22
- There has been a great deal of correspondence in the daily press about hypnotism and suggestion, and one writer in an evening paper recently complained that after being hypnotized she felt for some ti...
- Psycho-Therapeutics Not An Exclusive System Of Treatment. Part 23
- We repeated the experiment in Jtme, 1891, but I previously hypnotized her daily for three days, and each time suggested that on no account was she to allow herself to be hypnotized by anyone else, and...
- Chapter VI. Some Points In The Physiology And Psychology Of Hypnotism
- Some Points in the Physiology and Psychology of Hypnotism. - Authorities and their Theories. - Expectant Attention, Suggestion, and Inhibition. - Induction of Functional Aphasia, and what it teaches. ...
- Some Points In The Physiology And Psychology Of Hypnotism. Part 2
- If I am told to raise my arm, the order is conveyed to the auditory centre, and thence referred to the ganglionic cells of the cortex, in which the highest functions - attention, volition, comparison,...
- Some Points In The Physiology And Psychology Of Hypnotism. Part 3
- The excito-neural centres watch over the nutrition of the brain cells, and are, in fact, trophic centres for the cortex. The neuro-regulatory centres are kept au courant with the condition of each org...
- Some Points In The Physiology And Psychology Of Hypnotism. Part 4
- No two centres can be in fullest functional activity at the same time. For instance, if a certain centre A is alone excited, it will dominate consciousness until the centre of gravity is changed by th...
- Some Points In The Physiology And Psychology Of Hypnotism. Part 5
- A peculiar species of phenomena is that in which a letter, or word, or object, is eliminated from the consciousness of the patient. For instance, A B is told that on awaking he is to write certain wor...
- Some Points In The Physiology And Psychology Of Hypnotism. Part 6
- She assured me that Dr. F------ was not in the room, but had been called away to see a patient; this I had suggested to her in the hypnotic sleep. On being told by me to see Dr. F------, she immediate...
- Some Points In The Physiology And Psychology Of Hypnotism. Part 7
- Dr. Ireland, writing on the double brain (op. cit.), quotes largely from Dr. Edgar Berillon's book. This author certainly has the courage of his convictions, for, after giving many examples of...
- Chapter VII. Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena
- Reality of Hypnotic Phenomena. - Simulation Tests. - Practical Directions for Medical Hypnotism. - Excessive Nervous Tension. - Warmth by Suggestion. - Vital Reaction. - Absence of Personal Element in...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 2
- The method I usually adopt to produce the hypnotic state is that practised by Liebeault, and is undoubtedly the easiest and most rapid. The treatment is psychical, and attention to detail is absolutel...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 3
- The feeling of warmth is a characteristic and important symptom, and Liebeault was invariably confident of doing good to the patient in whom he could produce it, if the malady were a tractable one. * ...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 4
- I find a good method of testing susceptibility to hypnotism is the following: The patient is directed to stand with his back to me and his arms extended, so that his fingers lightly touch the chimneyp...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 5
- I tried six or seven times to hypnotize her, but was unsuccessful. I then advised her to put herself under Dr. Auguste Voisin, of Paris. He endeavoured to hypnotize her on thirty-five occasions, but f...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 6
- Similar results come from far-off Brazil, where Dr. Domingos Yaguaribe has established (in 1901) at San Paulo a flourishing clinique, after a course of study at the Institut Psycho-physiologique, unde...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 7
- Having secured a decent conveyance and a respectable driver, he gives himself up to rest in the confident expectation of arriving safely at his destination. If, instead of sitting still and trusting t...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 8
- The young men were of the junior City clerk class, and we found the most intelligent were the best subjects. I am quite certain that the patient has in no way felt subsequently influenced by the oper...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 9
- Dr. Paul Farez, of Paris, and several other physicians, find that they are frequently able to change natural sleep into hypnosis by making passes over the sleeper and gently telling him not to awake. ...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 10
- A few years ago I was asked as a matter of charity to try the effect of hypnotism on a poor elderly lady afflicted with disseminated spinal sclerosis. She was brought to my house and laid on a couch e...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 11
- Another and more satisfactory case of a somewhat similar but much more acute nature was that of a young lady who became obsessed by the idea that her brother-in-law was in love with her, and was influ...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 12
- Summarizing now the results of our experiments, it appears that hypnosis was most readily obtained in cases of hysterical insanity, and in a few cases of epileptic insanity, but in other forms of ment...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 13
- Forel enumerates the following conditions and diseases which he finds most satisfactorily treated by hypnotic suggestion (op. cit., p. 210): Spontaneous somnambulism. Pains of all descriptions, espe...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 14
- After the patient has been thoroughly accustomed to the treatment, it is often possible to hypnotize even while he is suffering great pain, as I have seen in cases of acute rheumatism and neuralgia. B...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 15
- For instance, a young lady, aged twenty-two, was brought to me in 1894. She had developed epileptic fits at the age of puberty, and they were only kept in check by large and continuous doses of bromid...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 16
- Milne Bramwell says his results in epilepsy have been encouraging, but not convincing. Out of ten cases five were markedly improved, but none recovered completely. The question of the curabil...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 17
- Another recent case is that of a medical student who had repeatedly failed at his viva-voce examination, not, he said, from want of knowledge, but from a mental confusion which seemed complementary to...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 18
- I feel perfectly convinced that hypnotic suggestion is the ideal treatment for curing morbid habits in children. If the child is a good subject, as most children are, the effects of bad heredity can b...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 19
- In many forms of genito-urinary troubles I have found suggestion a useful auxiliary in treatment; nor is this to be wondered at when we consider the amount of functional disturbance which is present i...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 20
- The need of such a society was felt by my friend Dr. B------ some years ago. He was house-surgeon to a provincial hospital, and in the wards was a patient with stammering bladder. All sorts of treatme...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 21
- In various small surgical procedures, such as lancing whitlows, opening abscesses, etc., I have found hypnotism a useful anaesthetic; and it is evident that in certain operations in which chloroform i...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 22
- If medical men will employ the Nancy method of treatment in their ordinary practice, they will find it a very useful auxiliary in many trying, painful, and tedious cases. For instance, in two cases o...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 23
- I need hardly say that the difference the patient's attitude makes to the sensitive physician's comfort is enormous. Dr. Constance Long says: ' As a good bedside manner is expected of the doctor a...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 24
- My friend Colonel Neilson, late Director-General of the Army Medical Department, Canada, tells me that the thing which first made him investigate hypnotism was seeing the effect of the treatment on a ...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 25
- To show what suggestion may do, I will cite the case of a medical friend who asked me to hypnotize him and make suggestions about retaining his water. He had an organic stricture and felt the greatest...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 26
- This is, of course, quite a different thing to 'absent treatment' as understood by Christian scientists and mind healers. 1 recently received a letter from a gentleman of Colorado Springs, U.S.A., suf...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 27
- The following case presents many points of interest. In 1893 an American working man came to me with a note from a well-known omniscient editor, and this was his story: He was thirty years of age, and...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 28
- So far I have only attempted to treat one case of hyperidrosis by suggestion. The patient was a young lady who came under treatment in 1899 for severe and almost continuous frontal headache. This was ...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 29
- Herrero, Von Schrenk-Notzing, Wetterstrand, and other authorities have made considerable use of chloroform for the purpose of quieting nervous excitement and breaking off the life of relation, and so ...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 30
- The failure of ordinary retreat treatment was commented on recently by Mr. Mead, Metropolitan magistrate at Marlborough Street Police Court, who said: ' Our experience of these homes is unfortunate, b...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 31
- Case 38: This patient led an exemplary life for ten years and became an ardent temperance worker. His wife died, and two years afterwards he married, most unwisely, a young and frivolous girl. Disappo...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 32
- In another case, which has since turned out most successful, the gentleman had a relapse at the end of a week, in consequence of being insufficiently guarded from special temptation. He at once told m...
- Reality Of Hypnotic Phenomena. Part 33
- There are cases on record in which cures have been sudden, but I should greatly distrust their permanence except in very exceptional instances. Many people have objected to hypnotism because they con...
- Chapter VIII. Inhibition. - Definition. - Dynamogenesis
- Inhibition. - Definition. - Dynamogenesis. - Theories of Brown-Sequard. - Lauder Brunton. - Interference. - Experiments. I propose in the following chapter to consider briefly the subject of inhibiti...
- Inhibition. - Definition. - Dynamogenesis. Part 2
- As in the heart we find two nervous agencies at work, the one exerting an exciting and the other a restraining influence, so it is in respect to all our functions and organs. There is a system of acti...
- Inhibition. - Definition. - Dynamogenesis. Part 3
- Brown-Sequard quotes the experiments of Fleming and Augustus Waller, showing how simultaneous pressure on the cervical sympathetic, the pneumogastric, and the carotid determines sleep. He supposes tha...
- Inhibition. - Definition. - Dynamogenesis. Part 4
- The heart, again, affords one of the best examples of the close association of neuro-regulatory arrangements and their action upon each other. If the heart is removed from a cold-blooded animal, it wi...
- Inhibition. - Definition. - Dynamogenesis. Part 5
- The tendency of nerve habits to be formed more readily in the hypnotic than in the waking condition is shown by the fact that the subject is extremely apt to assume spontaneously, on subsequent occasi...
- Chapter IX. Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis
- Natural Analogies of Hypnosis. - Relation of Hypnosis to Sleep and other Conditions. - -Theory of Hypnosis. - Leucomaines and Animal Alkaloids. - Hughlings Jackson's Three Planes of the Central Nervou...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 2
- Brown-Sequard * thinks that sleep results from inhibition, pure and simple, and supposes that the inhibitory impulses proceed from the neighbourhood of the medulla. He contends that the drowsiness of ...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 3
- If the functioning of all three divisions is suspended, death ensues, and if the two higher divisions are entirely placed out of action, and the lowest only functions, with enfeebled force we get a st...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 4
- Bernheim contends that 'the brain controls all the organs and every function, and that each part of the organism has its ultimate representation in a brain cell, which is its primum movens. Ea...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 5
- The condition of lethargy into which Sir M. Foster's patient fell is closely imitated by the completely inert state assumed by certain hypnotized persons, especially chronic epileptics. They become pe...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 6
- In the lighter grades of hypnosis there are psychical accompaniments, and the patient knows the limb is being moved, but is unable to prevent it, or can only do so by making great efforts. In the more...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 7
- According to the school of Nancy, suggestion is the key to the whole position. By it the patient is hypnotized, and without it he lies like a log, inert in mind and body. By it one centre can be made ...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 8
- He sums up the condition seen in the three stages as hyperexcitability of the nervous centres, which shows itself in different ways, according to the nature, intensity, and duration of the stimulus ap...
- Natural Analogies Of Hypnosis. Part 9
- The subject of these experiments was a healthy young girl presenting no signs of hysteria, unacted upon by magnets, and not susceptible to Charcot's stages. She was always hypnotized by Professor Mors...
- Chapter X. Other Cases Occurring In General Practice And Some Failures
- Some cases treated by the Author: 1. Insomnia; 2. Neurasthenia; 3. Writer's Cramp; 4. Tabes Dorsalis; 5. Torticollis; 6. Traumatic Headache; 7. Chronic Diarrhoea; 8. Paroxysmal Sneezing; 9. Tic-doulou...
- Case 1. - Insomnia
- A. T------, aged thirty-five, electrician, came to me on February 1, 1889, complaining of sleeplessness. It seemed to date from a severe accident from the explosion of a torpedo three years before. He...
- Case 2. - Neurasthenia
- R. H------, an American, aged forty-three, Press agent, consulted me in June, 1889, for pains in the back, depression of spirits, languor, loss of appetite, constipation, muscular weakness, dull pain ...
- Case 3. - Writer's Cramp
- Alice N------, clerk, aged twenty-five, came under treatment in March, 1889. She had had much writing to do, and for three years had felt symptoms of loss of power in the right hand and want of contro...
- Case 4. - Tabes Dorsalis
- H. F------, aged forty-seven, a valet, came under treatment in March. He was pale, anaemic, and emaciated, and had an expression and appearance of great depression. His family history was good. He had...
- Case 5. - Torticollis, Etc
- W. T------, aged thirty-four, consulted me in March for rheumatism of the muscles of the neck, shoulders, and back. She was a rheumatic subject, and the present illness dated from two weeks previous, ...
- Case 6. - Headache Following Injury
- E. H------, post-office clerk, aged thirty-two, came under treatment in July. She had been knocked down by a bicycle three weeks previously, and had fallen with her head against the curbstone. Her bac...
- Case 7. - Chronic Diarrhoea
- General B------, aged seventy-two, came under hypnotic treatment on April 3. He had previously been attended by me for chronic diarrhoea, but without much effect, and the malady was generally consider...
- Case 8. - Paroxysmal Sneezing
- F. H------, thirty-eight, lady's-maid, suffered during the summer of 1888 from hay-fever, and the fits of sneezing continued into the autumn, so that when I saw her on October 4 she told me that every...
- Case 9. - Tic-Doulourenx
- Mr. B------, aged twenty-nine, was sent to me in 1902. He suffered severely from tic-douloureux of the right trigeminal nerve. The pain had been almost incessant for two years, and was getting worse....
- Case 10. - Symptoms Dependent On Mitral Disease
- Miss H------, aged thirty-two, has been under my treatment on and off for several years, and after a long spell of literary work and late hours she consulted me in March. 1889, complaining of palpitat...
- Case 11. - Nocturnal Enuresis
- Thomas L------, aged thirteen, was brought to me in June, 1889, for this trouble. His parents had never succeeded in breaking him of the habit, though they had tried many different modes of treatment....
- Case 12. - Gouty Sciatica
- Mr. S. R------, a gentleman aged eighty-one, had been for many years a patient of mine, and was subject to attacks of gout, which showed itself in various ways. On this occasion (July) it took the for...
- Case 13. - Chronic Rheumatism With Wasting Of Muscles
- Mary T------, aged thirty-four, dressmaker, was sent to me in July, 1889, suffering from very intractable rheumatism of the right shoulder and elbow. It had lasted for three years and caused great pai...
- Case 14. - Nervous Dyspepsia
- Miss L------, aged thirty-two, consulted me in February, 1889. She had suffered more or less all her life from indigestion. She was very thin, and her complexion was yellow and spotted with papules of...
- Case 15. - Amenorrhoea
- E. S------, aged twenty-four, consulted me for various symptoms dependent on amenorrhoea in May, 1889. She was pale, somewhat anaemic, ate and slept fairly well, but suffered from nearly constant fron...
- Case 16. - Functional Dysmenorrhoea
- A. T------, aged twenty-one, clerk, came under treatment on October 10, 1888. She suffered much from painful menstruation, and has done so since the function became established four years previously. ...
- Case 17. - Dipsomania
- The assertion is sometimes made that women are never cured of alcoholism. This is quite untrue and unjust, especially when applied to women who work. Idle and self-indulgent people, whether men or wom...
- Case 18. - Dipsomania
- Mr. S------, aged fifty, a wealthy American gentleman, filling most important financial positions, was sent to Europe for treatment by Dr. Putnam, of Boston. He first went to Sir Francis Cruise, who l...
- Case 19. - Moral Breakdown
- T. L------, aged twenty-one, engineer, was sent to me for treatment by suggestion by a medical friend, as all ordinary treatment, medical and surgical, had failed. Since early adolescence he had pract...
- Sexual Perversion
- If hypnotism had done nothing more for medical science than bring such melancholy cases as the above within the scope of curative treatment, it would have conferred a lasting benefit on humanity. In e...
- Case 21. - Cure Of The Tobacco Habit
- Dr. X------ is a University professor of eminence, and he came to me in June, 1890, to try what hypnotic suggestion would do to cure him of smoking. He had been an inveterate smoker for twenty years, ...
- Case 22. - Neurasthenia
- Mr. A------, aged twenty-four, has taken a distinguished degree, and is a man of markedly neurotic and intellectual type. He came to me in 1890 suffering from nervousness, sleeplessness, restlessness,...
- Case 23. - Chronic Alcoholism
- Mr. X------, aged thirty-four, came under treatment in January, 1891. He is a strong, thick-set, muscular, and very plethoric man of highly nervous temperament. He had been a heavy drinker for about t...
- Case 24. - Nervous Prostration
- Mrs. E - - , aged forty-one, came under treatment in January, 1890. She had led an extremely unhappy life for years, on account of the misconduct of her husband, who was a drunkard and a rake. The sou...
- Case 25. - Extreme Anoemia Treated By Hypnotic Suggestion
- E. A------, aged eighteen, shop assistant, has been under my observation for several years, during which time I have occasionally treated her for various slight complaints. Her father is a drunkard, a...
- Case 26. - Kleptomania
- The name kleptomania excites a smile in many laymen, and they look upon it as a convenient cloak for the larcenies of the well-to-do. A learned judge is reputed to have replied to a counsel who raised...
- Case 27. - Mischievous Morbid Impulse In A Child
- The following notes present, I think, many points of interest, and illustrate the value of hypnotism in a class of cases not amenable to ordinary treatment: M. A------, aged thirteen, was brought to ...
- Case 28. - Agoraphobia
- Mary B------came to me for treatment in October, 1898. Her age is twenty-six, and she is a Board school mistress. She is a strong, healthy-looking woman and a great bicyclist. Two years ago she bega...
- Case 29. - Puerperal Insanity Aired By Hypnotism
- I was consulted about Mrs. H------ in December, 1906. She had been confined of her third child ten weeks previously, and very soon afterwards had developed insane delusions, which got steadily worse....
- Case 30. - Mania For Washing Cured By Suggestion
- Miss C------, aged twenty-one, daughter of a well-known physician, a bright and attractive girl, was brought to me by her father in 1905. The family had moved to London a year before, and the dirtines...
- Case 31. - Spasmodic Asthma Cured By Hypnotism
- J. T------, aged thirty-seven, came to me in 1902 having suffered from spasmodic asthma since childhood. Attacks recurred nearly every night, and his general health was much impaired. He was easily hy...
- Case 32. - Morbid Sexuality, Etc
- Mr. N------was brought to me in 1905 by a medical relation, as he found his cousin's case quite beyond him. And no wonder, for the young man was afflicted with those peculiar perverted sexual ideas Kr...
- Case 33. - Meniere's Disease, Or Aural Vertigo
- Miss D------, aged fifty, came to me in 1910 complaining of noises in the head, attacks of vertigo followed by vomiting. On several occasions she had fallen in the street, and she was consequently so ...
- Case 34. - Neurasthenia
- Mr. A------, an American lawyer aged forty-five, consulted me in 1904. He had been ill for three years, and attributed his illness to overwork and worry. He had undergone a good deal of treatment of v...
- Case 35. - Diabetes
- Dr. Francis, the well-known specialist, has published the following notes: 'My mother, aged eighty-one years, has suffered for more than thirty years from obstinate constipation. During the l...
- Case 35. - Diabetes. Part 2
- Another disappointing case is that of a boy aged ten, who was brought to me to be treated for nocturnal enuresis. He was a natural somnambulist, but hypnotism only induced Liebeault's fourth state. Su...
- Case 35. - Diabetes. Part 3
- I introduce the following case as a sort of medical curiosity: 5. Miss M------, aged forty-five, an extremely practical and clever woman, mistress of a large school. She is very gouty and rheumatic...
- Case 35. - Diabetes. Part 4
- I have been called upon to treat two cases of ' phantom limb,' after amputation, by hypnotism. The treatment seems to be thoroughly indicated in such cases, and it was a great disappointment to find t...
- Case 35. - Diabetes. Part 5
- The two last cases I shall give are not examples of brilliant cures, but illustrate the importance of not promising too much from the treatment. 2. Miss H------has been a chronic invalid almost since...
- Chapter XI. Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis
- By Dr. Constance Long Dr. Lloyd Tuckey has kindly invited me to contribute a chapter to his book on Freud's method of psycho-analysis. Although, for reasons stated farther on, psycho-analysts rarely m...
- Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis. Part 2
- Dr. T. W. Mitchell, who disagrees somewhat with Freud's interpretation, thus summarizes his description: 'The sexual impulse of the child manifests itself as a very complex one; it permits of a...
- Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis. Part 3
- For the understanding of repression, Freud has found it necessary to describe a theoretical but very potent 'censor' who, as before explained, stands between the conscious and unconscious, and who dis...
- Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis. Part 4
- The following example, taken from Dr. Bernard Hart's paper on ' The Psychology of Freud and his School,' * gives an excellent illustration of the value of a word-association test in directing the phys...
- Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis. Part 5
- A first introduction to Freud's work is almost certain to arouse repulsion; this is largely due to the unveiling of psycho-sexual activities in all their minutiae; and to the unusual application of la...
- Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis. Part 6
- The psycho-analysis was the means of synthesizing the dissociated psychic groups, forcing the ego to bring the ideas into normal (albeit painful) association and realization. Here, as elsewhere, the d...
- Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis. Part 7
- It is well to understand what is meant by the transference of the affects to the physician. Any successful practitioner knows well that the best results are obtained in the case of an obedient and dev...
- Introduction To The Study Of Psycho-Analysis. Part 8
- But need we fear the truth? To call things by new names, to allow certain words to embrace wider meanings, does not alter any of the facts of Nature. What is of serious moment is that we should not ma...
- Appendix
- Dr. Yung's Experiment with 'Magnetized Cards.' - Hilgers Experiment to show Subconscious Direction. - James Braid, of Manchester. - Duration of Hypnotic Sleep. - Luys' Rotating Mirror and Ochorowicz's...
- Note 1. - For Page 28
- I am informed on the best authority that in the initiatory rites of several secret societies the candidate is submitted to a somewhat similar ordeal. He is told that he must submit to be bled. His eye...
- Note 2. - Braid Of Manchester
- James Braid used to throw his patients into a kind of sleep or trance by making them fix their eyes and attention on a bright object - generally his lancet-case - held a few inches above the eyes He f...
- Note 3. - Duration Of Hypnotic Sleep
- In order to arrive at the solution of this question, Professor Bernheim allowed many of his patients to 'have their sleep out.' He found its average duration was three or four hours, but, as with natu...
- Note 4. - Luys' Rotating Mirror, And Ochorowicz's Hypnoscope
- The mirror designed by Dr. Luys, of La Charite, is used in dispensaries and hospitals when it is desired to hypnotize a large number of persons in a short space of time. It consists of a rapidly-revol...
- Note 5. - Theory Of Professor Delboeuf
- The late Dr. Delboeuf, of Liege, whose experiment on the cauterized arm has been referred to, puts forward a theory to account for this action of suggestion on the functions of organic life. He suppos...
- Note 6. - Theory Of F. W. H. Myers
- The late Mr. F. W. H. Myers for many years made a careful study of hypnotism from a psychical point of view, and his researches on the subconscious self, or subliminal consciousness, are embodied in t...
- Note 7. - Some Phenomena Of Hypnotic Somnambulism
- Many extraordinary and, at the present time, inexplicable phenomena can be produced in subjects who attain the last degree of hypnotic somnambulism. Such persons are but rarely met with, and are, I b...
- Note 8. - Liebeault's Classification Of Hypnotic Sleep
- First Degree The patient feels a heaviness of the eyelids and a general drowsiness. Second Degree This is characterized by suggestive catalepsy. When the operator places the arm in a certain positi...
- Note 9. - Method Of Public Performers
- Though, in deference to public sentiment, the travelling 'professors' style themselves hypnotists, it is easy to see that they do so somewhat under protest, and that they much prefer the old name of '...
- Note 10. - Resolutions Adopted At The Paris Congress
- The following resolutions were agreed to at the first International Congress of Physicians and Jurists on Hypnotism held in Paris, 1889: 'This Congress recognizes the danger of public exhibitions of ...
- Note 11. - Experiments In Auto-Suggestion
- Dr. Coste de Lagrave, surgeon-major in the French army, contributed an interesting paper to the International Congress of 1890, on auto-suggestion, and related several experiments he has made on himse...
- Note 12. - Hypnotization Of Animals
- Dr. Gerald Yeo, late Professor of Physiology at King's College, read a very interesting paper before the College Society in 1883 ('The Nervous Mechanism of Hypnotism'), in which he propounded some int...
- Note 13. - Treatment By Transfer
- The late Dr. Luys, physician to La Charite Hospital, Paris, and a well-known physiologist, recently introduced a novel kind of treatment of which he expected great things, and which, as he told me, he...
- Note 14. - Christian Science Healing
- As far as I understand the method of healing called Christian Science, and similar modes of treatment, which, as Sir J. Crichton Browne told us at Leeds, fall legitimately within the scope of medical ...
- Note 14. - Christian Science Healing. Continued
- Unlike the ' peculiar people,' who often figure in the courts as having contributed to their children's deaths by refusing to call in medical assistance in illness, the Christian Scientists appeal to ...
- Note 15. - Spiritual And Mental Healing
- A committee composed of eminent doctors and clergymen - including the Dean of Westminster, the Bishop of Stepney, Sir Douglas Powell, Sir J. Rickman Godlee - is sitting to consider the rationale and g...
- Note 16. - Hypnotism And Crime
- Recent events, and especially the Gouffe trial in Paris, have brought the question of the employment of hypnotism for criminal purposes prominently before the legal and medical professions, and a word...
- Note 16. - Hypnotism And Crime. Part 2
- In the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, May, 1891, Sir F. Cruise relates how he saw Dr. Bernheim endeavour to extract a man's political opinions while in a state of profound hypnosis. The patient de...
- Note 16. - Hypnotism And Crime. Part 3
- In the event of a criminal action being committed through hypnotic suggestion, expert evidence will be forthcoming to completely establish the case. I think, however, a false plea of having acted und...
- Note 17. - The Hypnotic Will Case
- In July, 1898, there was a sensational law case in which I was subpoenaed to give evidence. Dr. Kingsbury, of Blackpool, was appointed executor and residuary legatee under the will of an old lady pati...
- Note 18. - False Evidence And Suggestion In Legal Cases
- Though this book is chiefly concerned with the medical aspect of hypnotism and suggestion, attention has been directed to the important role they play in all relations of life. Lawyers, clergymen, and...
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