COMPLETE HYPNOTISM/COMPLETE
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
Copyright 2021
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 side-show
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--Hallucination--Bad
habits
CHAPTER
X--Hypnotism
of animals--Snake charming
CHAPTER
XI--A
scientific explanation of hypnotism--Dr. Hart's theory
CHAPTER
XII--Telepathy
and Clairvoyance--Peculiar power in hypnotic
state--Experiments--"Phantasms of the living" explained by telepathy
CHAPTER XIII--The
Confessions of a Medium--Spiritualistic phenomena explained on theory of
telepathy--Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of the
Psychical Research Society
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