. The journal of mental pathology. SUGGESTION DURING NATURAL SLEEP. BY DR. PAUL FAREZ, PARIS. Psychotherapy has now definitely demonstrated its right toexistence in the scientific world by the variety, multiplicity andstability of its curative effects. The main modes of action in psychotherapy are of varied value:direct suggestion during the waking state, indirect suggestion, bymeans of medicaments, electricity, etc., have all been used withunquestionable success. Suggestion during induced sleep is, ofcourse, the method most generally accepted—the heroic method;it enables us to act on the pati
. The journal of mental pathology. SUGGESTION DURING NATURAL SLEEP. BY DR. PAUL FAREZ, PARIS. Psychotherapy has now definitely demonstrated its right toexistence in the scientific world by the variety, multiplicity andstability of its curative effects. The main modes of action in psychotherapy are of varied value:direct suggestion during the waking state, indirect suggestion, bymeans of medicaments, electricity, etc., have all been used withunquestionable success. Suggestion during induced sleep is, ofcourse, the method most generally accepted—the heroic method;it enables us to act on the patient most efficaciously and to obtainthe most permanent cure. According to the expression of Durandde Gros, indeed, the subject hypnotized is plunged into a conditionof hypotaxia; the patient^s mind is free from all distraction, he isoffering no mental resistance, being submissive and docile; hispsychic being presents a fruitful soil upon which ideoplastia cancause active suggestion to germinate. The principle of psychotherapists
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