tailieunhanh - Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use

INTRODUCTION--History of hypnotism--Mesmer--Puysegur--Braid--What is hypnotism?--Theories of hypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis Theory; 3. Suggestion Theory CHAPTER I--How to Hypnotize--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 hypnotic sleep--Frauds of public hypnotic entertainments. CHAPTER II--Amusing experiments--Hypnotizing on the stage--"You can't pull your hands apart!"--Post-hypnotic suggestion--The newsboy, the hunter, and the young man with the rag doll--A whip becomes hot iron--Courting a broom stick--The sideshow CHAPTER III--The stages of hypnotism--Lethargy-Catalepsy--The somnambulistic stage--Fascination CHAPTER IV--How the subject feels under hypnotization--Dr. Cocke's experience-Effect of music--Dr. Alfred Warthin's experiments CHAPTER V--Self hypnotization--How it may be done--An. | Complete Hypnotism Mesmerism Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method Application and Use by A. Alpheus 1903 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION--History of hypnotism--Mesmer--Puysegur--Braid--What is hypnotism --Theories of hypnotism 1. Animal magnetism 2. The Neurosis Theory 3. Suggestion Theory CHAPTER I--How to Hypnotize--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 hypnotic sleep--Frauds of public hypnotic entertainments. CHAPTER II--Amusing experiments--Hypnotizing on the stage-- You can t pull your hands apart --Post-hypnotic suggestion--The newsboy the hunter and the young man with the rag doll--A whip becomes hot iron--Courting a broom stick--The sideshow CHAPTER III--The stages of hypnotism--Lethargy-Catalepsy--The somnambulistic stage--Fascination CHAPTER IV--How the subject feels under hypnotization--Dr. Cocke s experience-Effect of music--Dr. Alfred Warthin s experiments CHAPTER V--Self hypnotization--How it may be done--An experience--Accountable for children s crusade--Oriental prophets self- hypnotized CHAPTER VI--Simulation--Deception in hypnotism 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 hypnotic subject CHAPTER VII--Criminal suggestion--Laboratory crimes--Dr. Cocke s experiments showing criminal suggestion is not possible--Dr. William James theory--A bad man cannot be made good why expect to make a good man bad CHAPTER VIII--Dangers in being hypnotized Condemnation of public performances--A commonsense view--Evidence furnished by Lafontaine by Dr. Courmelles by Dr. Hart by Dr. Cocke--No danger in hypnotism if rightly used by physicians or scientists CHAPTER IX--Hypnotism in medicine--Anesthesia--Restoring the use of muscles-- .