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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. THE PHENOMENA OF HYPNOSIS. Natural characteristics--Various forms--Pulsation--Respiration--Effect of hypnosis on the eyes and mouth--Suggestive movements and inhibition of movement--Inability to contract, and antagonistic contracture of muscles--Movements made without and against the will--Means of Suggestion--Donatism--The muscular sense--Nature of the muscular contractures--Automatic Movements--Occasional state of Lethargy--Absolute catalepsy--Charcot and neuro-muscular hyperexcitability--Hypnotic ansesthesia--Dangers of chloroform, etc.--The psychological value of hypnotism--An examination of memory--Retention of ideas in hypnosis--The phenomena of memory in relation to hypnosis--Increase of memory by suggestion--False memory--Errors and loss of memory due to suggestion--Connection of motor disturbances with memory--Particular inhibition--Deprivation of perception--Deprivation of perception and conception--Post-hypnotism--Hallucinations and illusions--Value of post-hypnotism--Continuative suggestion--Deferred suggestion--Various kinds of suggestion--The post-hypnotic states--Their classification--Depth of hallucinations--Examples--Modifications of the pulse, temperature, respiration--Hallucinations, illusions, and increase of sight--Of hearing--Of taste--Of smell--Of touch--The sense of pressure--Hallucinations of colour--The muscular sense--Unilateral hypnosis--The mental condition of subject under hallucination--Rapport--Consciousness in hypnosis--The inhibition of the will--Reciprocal action of the will and the intellect--The illusion of resistance--The moral consciousness. The alterations of the ordinary functions of the body during hypnosis vary in their degree and number in accordance with the method of hypnotisation adopted, the depth...
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