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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER VII
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Hypnotic suggestion, say they, is only an exaggeration of an influence to which all persons are normally subject.

All the variations, stages, curious phenomena, etc., of the Paris school, they claim, can be explained by this "suggestion" hypothesis.

The Nancy school must be considered completely victorious apart from some facts which no theory has yet explained.
Hypnotism shows an intimacy of interaction between mind and body to which current psychology is only beginning to do justice; and it is this aspect of the whole matter which should be emphasized in this connection.

The hypnotic condition of consciousness may be taken to represent the working of Suggestion most remarkably..


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