{"product_id":"complete-hypnotism-a-alpheus-9781541215474","title":"Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism: How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Applic","description":"CONTENTS --History of hypnotism--Mesmer--Puysegur--Braid--What is hypnotism?--Theories of hypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis Theory; 3. Suggestion Theory --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. --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 --The stages of hypnotism--Lethargy-Catalepsy--The somnambulistic stage--Fascination --How the subject feels under hypnotization--Dr. Cocke's experience--Effect of music--Dr. Alfred Warthin's experiments --Self hypnotization--How it may be done--An experience--Accountable for children's crusade--Oriental prophets self- hypnotized --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 --Criminal suggestion--Laboratory crimes--Dr. Cocke's experiments showing criminal suggestion is not possible--Dr. William James' theory--A bad man cannot be made good, why expect to make a good man bad? --Dangers in being hypnotized Condemnation of public performances--A commonsense view--Evidence furnished by Lafontaine; by Dr. Courmelles; by Dr. Hart; by Dr. Cocke--No danger in hypnotism if rightly used by physicians or scientists --Hypnotism in medicine--Anesthesia--Restoring the use of muscles--Hallucination--Bad habits --Hypnotism of animals--Snake charming --A scientific explanation of hypnotism--Dr. Hart's theory --Telepathy and Clairvoyance--Peculiar power in hypnotic state--Experiments--\"Phantasms of the living\" explained by telepathy --The Confessions of a Medium--Spiritualistic phenomena explained on theory of telepathy-- Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of the Psychical Research Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Alpheus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1541215478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541215474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.12d","brand":"A. Alpheus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46383932801279,"sku":"9781541215474","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb100e60-de3e-4883-acfa-6b8d2f64b3d6.jpg?v=1733282122","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/complete-hypnotism-a-alpheus-9781541215474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}