Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . ak in and then todraw their own conclusions. We are far from it, in spite of the bril-liant work of the so-called School of Nancy. Bernheim is so just that he soon relinquished the preliminarysleep of hypnotism, result of pure suggestion as it is, and made useonly of verbal suggestion in the waking state. It is marvelous to seehim without hypnotism not only dissipate the most diverse func-tional disorders, like paralyses, anaesthesias, neuralgias, intestinal dis-orders, etc., but make his wide-waking s
Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . ak in and then todraw their own conclusions. We are far from it, in spite of the bril-liant work of the so-called School of Nancy. Bernheim is so just that he soon relinquished the preliminarysleep of hypnotism, result of pure suggestion as it is, and made useonly of verbal suggestion in the waking state. It is marvelous to seehim without hypnotism not only dissipate the most diverse func-tional disorders, like paralyses, anaesthesias, neuralgias, intestinal dis-orders, etc., but make his wide-waking subjects accept the strangestsuggestions. One must have seen him operate or have studied attentively hisclear writings thoroughly to understand the power of suggestiveauthority. If he has not discovered human suggestibility—it wasknown and employed in ancient times—he has shown that it is with-out limits. It is in this demonstration that he has shown analyticalpowers and a logical gift lacking in the numerous previous observers 1 See note under The Next Article, on preceding page.[22]. METHOD OF PERSUASION who, since Mesmer, have investigated what was called AnimalMagnetism. Bernheim went still further, and, following the analogy betweensuggestion and persuasion, has often -had recourse to the latter andused his logic to calm the patient and instill in him the idea ofrecovery. This clinician-emeritus passed through three successive stages: (1) He followed the method of hypnotism into which he wasinitiated by Liebeault, and from which he extracted the essence inreferring it back to suggestion pure and simple. (2) He took up verbal suggestion in the waking state. (3) He uses methods of persuasion whenever the occasion pre-sents itself. It is quite natural that in the course of this develop-ment Bernheim should have believed that I had followed the samepath. This is why he raises the question of priority regarding my Traitement moral des psychoneuroses! It is absolutely unjusti
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