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perversion, including homosexuality, as well as masochism, sadism and fetishism;
and, further, perverse inclination towards the immature of the other sex. Krafft-Ebing,
Schrenck-Notzing, Kraepelin, Alfred Fuchs, Ladame, Tatzel, Naret, Renterghem,
and Wetterstrand have observed good results in the most different forms of sexual
perversion. The treatment has also occasionally proved successful in masturbation.
Hirst recommends hypnotism in the neuroses of traumatism and emotion. Whether suggestion can be of any essential use in neurasthenia is a question that has often been raised, but the views expressed on it differ. Bernheim has seen no good results; but this is not the experience of Eeden. Many believe that neurastheniacs are not so very suggestible, an opinion which is not shared by Berillon, Mezeray, Mavroukakis, and others. The successful results reported by Berillon have been sharply criticized by Schrenck-Notzing. In reference to an experiment by Heim, in which suggestion was successfully used to ward off sea-sickness, Forel mentions a similar case. Other authors also (Fare; Hamilton Osgood, and Bonnet) state that it is possible to prevent sea-sickness by suggestion, or to stop it at the onset. On theoretical grounds Bonnet thinks that it would only be possible to stop sea-sickness that has once really started if the patient were very highly suggestible; but from his own experience he admits the value of suggestion as a prophylactic. I believe, with Rosenbach, to whom we owe an admirable treatise on sea-sickness, that we have here to distinguish two causes, one of which is fear and excitement. In this respect a favourable influence can certainly be exerted by suggestion. But the second is made up of physical causes, the movement of the ship and of objects on it which are watched. That suggestion may sometimes render these physical influences inoperative appears to me conceivable; but one can well understand that it only rarely succeeds. I may here mention that as far back as 1793 a woman who had an unconquerable aversion to trusting herself afloat, once crossed the water in the somnambulic state while under the influence of so-called animal magnetism (Ferret). Affections which can scarcely be called diseases may also yield to hypnotic suggestion. In a case of David's, a lady for many years had been liable to burst into tears at every occurrence, however slight; this condition improved under hypnotic 310 HYPNOTISM. |
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