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The school is thus lagging behind business in appreciating the value of suggestion in learning. This fault should be corrected. There are two types of suggestion that can be used with advantage in educational work. A great majority of students can be aroused to hard study by up-to-date information about natural and social sciences, in a dramatic form; by appealing to their personal interests; by a wealth of concrete examples; by an intelligent approach to their emotions and imagination; and in a hundred other ways. The life-like suggestiveness of facts drawn directly from experience and reality and cleverly presented, is all they really require. In such cases, hypnosis can not, and ought not to, be used as a substitute for regular educational practices.Then again there are individuals who, for various reasons, fail to respond to simple suggestion by words and example. They may be victims of unfortunate experiences that had conditioned them wrongly to school work; they may be suffering from some form of neurosis; they may be affected by some bodily or mental idiosyncrasy, putting them into a class by themselves. In quite a few of these cases, hypnosis can be of valuable service, either in freeing the individual from his psychological difficulties or in stimulating his interests, which refuse to be aroused in normal ways. Imagination, particularly, is a capacity which admits of great intensification through hypnotic (oneirotic) suggestion and can be utilized in many different ways to facilitate pedagogic purposes.

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Objectionable physical habits, such as nail-biting or lip-twitching, ordinarily call for strong suggestion. But in these cases, too, the hypnotist should keep in mind the possibility that the habit is merely a manifestation of nervousness and should not be treated apart from the underlying causes. If these be not removed, the habit, though apparently cured, is likely to come back before long, or to take an entirely different form. Hysterics, particularly, show this tendency to the return of symptoms of their disease. Whenever nervousness is not marked, however, one sitting or more, depending on the kind and gravity of the case, will often suffice to obliterate the fault completely. Unfortunately, in the absence of available precise techniques for every kind of trouble, the hypnotist is commonly forced to experiment and to devise his methods of treatment almost at a minute's notice. Naturally, these methods are not always as effective as they could be, had an extensive scientific experimentation preceded. Nevertheless, even at the present stage in the development of scientific hypnotism, certain general rules as well as certain specific methods can be laid down.

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There are several specific lines along which medical research should be continued, as the data already available are extremely promising. J. F. Woods, for instance, recommended hypnosis for lowering temperature in rheumatic fever, pleurisy and pneumonia. It may be used also to prevent arterio-sclerosis, whenever its development is due in part to constipation or gastric disorders. O. G. Wetterstrand contended that no remedy exerts so soothing an influence on the dying person as hypnotic suggestion. A. Munthe had an extensive practice along these lines and was able to report that "even more striking is the beneficial effect of this method in the most painful of all operations, as a rule still to be endured without anaesthesia-Death. What it was granted to me to do for many of our dying soldiers during the last war is enough to make me thank God for having had this powerful weapon in my hands.

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The power of in-doctrination is even more noticeable in our own times, especially when we acquaint ourselves with what is happening in Italy and Germany. These are all well known facts. Yet theory lags behind practice, and little is known of the precise manner in which suggestion works. Much patient and difficult experimentation is required to find, under conditions of scientific control, the adequate techniques to be used in various situations in which people's minds can be influenced and directed. But once such research goes under way and becomes thorough and systematic, who can tell how far it will lead? Is it really incorrect to maintain that suggestion is one of the mighty tools of education, which can be used for good purposes and evil? Is it wrong to assert that no leadership is effective on a large scale, unless it resorts to suggestion? As far as hypnosis is concerned, it may be superfluous in ordinary situations, but it is hard to overestimate its value in exceptional and pathological cases.

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Among the scientific hypnotists, the conviction was growing for some time that it is hardly an advantage for the psychological, educational, or even medical research and treatment to deal with an obedient but secretly disgruntled slave whose muscles are bound by the fetters of powerful inhibition or, to modify the analogy, to deal with a dummy unable to think, reason and criticize. Some authors, notably B. Sidis and, more recently, J. Goldwyn, went so far in the direction opposite to the popular tradition as to contend that the state of simple somnolence caused by the monotony of sensations and by the limitation of voluntary activities is sufficient for many therapeutic purposes.

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In view of these facts, I concur fully with Dr. Moll in his opinion that public exhibitions of hypnosis "ought to be prohibited on both moral and hygienic grounds. It is perfectly true that at one time such public exhibitions served to draw the attention of scientists to hypnotism, but nowadays they are more calculated to repel people from the scientific study of that question, since they degrade hypnosis into an object of vulgar curiosity, instead of elevating it to one of research." The only type of demonstration that should be permitted is that of scientific nature and of educational purport.

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Fortunately, the excessive repetition of sittings can be avoided through a simple device of auto-suggestion. Suppose a patient is treated by hypnosis for the habit of excessive smoking. While in the state, he is given a cigarette to smoke and conditioned, say, to the emotion of disgust. In order to re-arouse this feeling at regular intervals, without subjecting him to further treatments, he is given, on being awakened from the trance, a note-book on the cover of which a label is attached, with the following words conspicuously printed:

As the patient receives this note-book, he is instructed as follows: "It is very important that you make a daily report on the progress of your cure, even it it be 'No change'. This note-book will help you a good deal, by reminding you of the suggestion you have now received from me. Every time you take the book to write down your report, read carefully the title. On this date next month, come to see me again." As all suggestion is rooted in the functions of the autonomic nervous system, such use of auto-suggestion can often be properly and advantageously combined with hypnosis.

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If the purpose of the sitting is to stimulate an emotional attitude, as when the patient is to be cured of an objectionable habit, such as nail-biting or smoking, when he must be taught to feel disgust or aversion to the object of his addiction, the emotion should be aroused by some visual image or by some imaginary yet realistic experience, rather than be suggested merely in words. A hypnotist will do wisely to memorize a number of stories that can serve the purpose. "When I suggest anger," write Schilder and Kauders, "I never suggest this feeling alone, but must always suggest a content of reproduction or of conception together with the idea. In fact, in general, much better results will be obtained in suggestions of this type by emphasizing the content and not the feeling of the emotion as such... This attitude simultaneously furnishes us with the general formulation that every conception, every perception, every idea, has its appropriate vasovegetative consequences. . . If I desire an acceleration of my heart-beat, I can attain it by visualizing a terrifying conception." To a scientist well versed in the functional mechanism of human psychology, such a procedure is not a novel device, but an old and basic rule of suggestion.

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If the subject has been repeatedly hypnotized, the trance can be induced very easily, sometimes merely by reminding him of a previous similar experience. In fact, the facility with which it can be induced grows with every sitting up to a certain point. Subjects have been known to be hypnotized by telephone or letter (Liégeois). Victrola records have been used to the same effect. And it is not inconceivable that hypnosis will be effected by a radio broadcast. I hope to see the experiment attempted; I do not mind even to try my own hand, should an opportunity present itself.

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Anything that detracts from his faith, decreases the power of suggestion over his mind and body. Consequently, the hypnotist's home will not do as a place of practice, nor surely the home of his subject, as neither is conducive to success, being too familiar, or ordinary, or cozy. Suggestion is incomparably more effective in the cold environment of an office. It should be preferably impressive and stern in appearance, something that makes people stay silent or talk in whispering tones. A polite and business-like secretary will enhance the effect. All apparatus should be prepared and arranged in advance, to eliminate loss of time, fuss, muffled swearing. The practician must leave in his subject's mind the impression that he is certain of every motion and step. The voice, too, must convey the importance, exactitude, and calmness of his actions. The organization of his speech and the intonation of his words are also not without significance.

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There exists other evidence showing a definite distinction between sleep and the hypnotic state, which easily escapes the attention of an untrained observer. Since appearances are often deceptive, it was important, for determining the exact nature of hypnosis, to apply some scientific test to processes within the body, particularly to the nervous system. Having selected reflex activity of the organism as such crucial test, M. J. Bass found that, whereas in sleep the knee-jerk is clearly inhibited, it shows "no differentiation between the normal waking state and the hypnotic trance. . . These results make it quite clear that the hypnotic trance can not be considered as having any more than a superficial resemblance to sleep. Physiologically we may assume that the states are quite different."8 Drs. E. N. Harvey, G. Hobart and A. L. Loomis arrived at a similar conclusion in their study of the "brain-waves" (fluctuations in the electrical potential of the brain).

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Psychological side the phenomenon is controlled largely by the central nervous system. But then the suggestion is passed on. It becomes a physiological phenomenon, or a way to reach the autonomic nervous system, with resulting actions taking place apparently with no control of conscious will. The hysterics are suggestible in the latter sense. Suggestion works physiologically rather than psychologically in them. Their "pretense" is not willed at all. Hysteria manifests itself either as the result of a powerful emotion (fear, rage, love, religious ecstasy, etc.) or as a consequence of the relationship of suggestion. It is cured, too, through emotion or suggestion. What is even more interesting, the symptoms of hysteria can be removed by hypnosis-which fact induced Charcot to believe that only neurotics, and particularly hysterics, can be hypnotized. Science owes a great debt to Charcot for his observation that paralyses and contractures, undistinguishable from those occurring in hysteria, can also be produced by hypnotic suggestion. As S. Freud, erstwhile Charcot's pupil, said "such artificial products showed, down to their smallest details, the same features as spontaneous attacks." H. Bernheim subsequently demonstrated that Charcot was wrong and that all people, not only hysterics, can be hypnotized. Charcot himself was hard to persuade, and before he was defeated, he made the controversy one of the most colorful in the history of European medicine.

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Hallucinations of sound can be produced, and the subject will listen to a symphony in a complete silence around him. When aroused from the state, he may report on the particular piece of music he was listening to; naturally, this will happen only if the subject is familiar with the piece suggested during the trance. Or, the opposite sort of illusion can be created, so that he will utterly disregard a loud voice calling him by his first name. The same effect can be occasionally produced also in the post-hypnotic state. At a recent meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, M. H. Erickson reported that complete physical deafness had been produced and removed in two college students solely by hypnotic suggestion.

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Few can resist the thrill aroused by a demonstration of hypnosis. Sensing this public attitude, the adventurers of research as well as the exploiters of human credulity are in the habit of coloring their demonstrations with a touch of the supernatural and occult. They glean notoriety, while the pursuit of truth is impeded. As a result, some scholars are themselves carried away by the contagion of excitement and become addicts to mysticism; others, repelled by the atmosphere of superstition, pass by in disgust and disapproval.

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Contrary to the pre-scientific arts of medicine, astrology and alchemy, the modern sciences promise no miracles. Nevertheless, their real strength and accomplishments are by far superior to those of magic. Where magic boasted, science works. True as this is, the experience of progressive thought was a continuous struggle against the recurrent tendency of human nature, especially among superficially educated people, to discover mystery in anything that, to their mind, appears unusual. The fight science waged against ignorance, superstition and mysticism is not over; as it seems, the fight must be carried on. For some of the newer sciences, like their older predecessors, began in wonder.One of the fields where, unfortunately, much of the ancient magic tenaciously persists is that of hypnotism.

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Indeed, we ourselves feel that the central part of the nervous system is just as much involved in hypnotic effects as is the autonomic part (of the peripheral nervous system). This serves to make the facts of hypnotism still more remarkable. We may well believe Dr. Winn when he says, "Hypnotism ... puts at the disposal of science the greatest power yet known of influencing human minds ..."

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Yet even here we can by no means feel certain. Physicians have invented various ingenious pieces of apparatus for testing the circulation and other physiological conditions; but even these things are not sure tests. The writer knows of the case of a man who has such control over his heart and lungs that he can actually throw himself into a profound hypnotic sleep in which the breathing is so absolutely stopped for an hour that a mirror is not moistened in the least by the breath, nor can the pulses be felt. To all intents and purposes the man appears to be dead; but in due time he comes to life again, apparently no whit the worse for his experiment.

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We may suppose that Mrs. Piper voluntarily hypnotizes herself. Perhaps she simply puts her conscious reason to sleep. In that condition the rest of her mind is in an exalted state, and capable of telepathy and mind-reading, either of those near at hand or at a distance. Her reason being asleep, she simply dreams, and the questions of her sitter are made to fit into her dream.

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It has already been noticed that persons in the hypnotic state seem to have certain of their senses greatly heightened in power. They can remember, see and hear things that ordinary persons would be entirely ignorant of. There is abundant evidence that a supersensory perceptionis also developed, entirely beyond the most highly developed condition of the ordinary senses, such as being able to tell clearly what some other person is doing at a great distance. In view of the discovery of the X or Roentgen ray, the ability to see through a stone wall does not seem so strange as it did before that discovery.

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