Advanced suggestion (neuroinduction) / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
Date:
1921
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Credit: Advanced suggestion (neuroinduction) / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Instead of the rapport of the older writers, I prefer the term altcro-association; instead of the hypnotism of the older writers, I would describe the process as aliero-conduction ; in place of suggestion, altero-ino ac¬ tion would seem preferable. The moment altero-induction becomes complete conduction, the condition should constitute the hyp¬ nosis of the older writers, with the capacity of exhibit¬ ing hallucinations, and incapability of remembering in the supraconscious what happened during the state of hypnosis. Hypnosis so-called) or altero-condaction is not the best state for treatment by suggestion, for the simple reason that the most efficacious suggestion is only to be obtained by the most perfect co-operation possible on the part of the patient. In so-called hypnosis the patient is not asked to co-operate : he is bidden. He consents to enter into the state of absolute resignation, leaving all direction to the physician. He resigns his volition, but retains just enough potentiality to enable him to resist and oppose in case this should seem advisable. Let the reader avoid any misconception here: the hypnotised or altcro-conductccl patient can always exercise volition to the extent of refusing to obey an injunction if he has sufficient reason to do so. Because he does not act according to behest he must not be regarded as either unconscious or without volition; it is simply that lie so far ceases to exercise his own volition. Inducted patients fully co-operate all the time. 18
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