Complete Hypnotism

Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and SpiritualismBy A. Alpheus

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Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary conscious state. Nonstate theories see hypnosis as a form of imaginative role enactment.

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Publish dateJun 7, 2021

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1INTRODUCTION.

2WHAT IS HYPNOTISM?

3THEORIES OF HYPNOTISM.

4CHAPTER I. -HOW TO HYPNOTIZE.

5CHAPTER II. - AMUSING EXPERIMENTS.

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6CHAPTER III. - THE STAGES OF HYPNOTISM.

7CHAPTER IV - How the Subject Feels Under Hypnotization.

8CHAPTER V. - Self-Hypnotization.--How It may Be Done.--An Experience.--Accountable for Children&#x27;s Crusade.--Oriental Prophets Self-Hypnotized.

9CHAPTER 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.

10CHAPTER VII. - Criminal Suggestion.--Laboratory Crimes.--Dr. Cocke&#x27;s Experiments Showing Criminal Suggestion Is not Possible.--Dr. William James&#x27; Theory.--A Bad Man Cannot Be Made Good, Why Expect to Make a Good Man Bad?

11CHAPTER VIII. - Dangers in Being Hypnotized.--Condemnation of Public Performances.--A. Common Sense 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.

12CHAPTER IX. - Hypnotism in Medicine.--Anesthesia.--Restoring the Use of Muscles.--Hallucination.--Bad Habits.

13CHAPTER X. - Hypnotism of Animals.--Snake Charming.

14CHAPTER XI. - A Scientific Explanation of Hypnotism.--Dr. Hart&#x27;s Theory.

15CHAPTER XII. - Telepathy and Clairvoyance.--Peculiar Power in Hypnotic State.--Experiments.--&quot;Phantasms of the Living&quot; Explained by Telepathy

16CHAPTER XIII. - The Confessions of Medium.--Spiritualistic Phenomena Explained on Theory of Telepathy.--Interesting Statement of Mrs. Piper, the Famous Medium of the Psychical Research Society.