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Title: Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism
How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use

Author: A. Alpheus

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Language: English

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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 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 s