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Jahrbucher, which are supple-mental to the former. For these Corval and, later on, Schrenck-Notzing have contributed diligent and detailed criticisms of the most recent works on the subject. In Penzoldt and Stinzing's Handbuch der Speziellen Therapie, the section in question has been prepared by Liebermeister, who writes with reserve on hypnosis, and gives preference to suggestion applied when the patient is awake.

Other authors worked at the particular subjects which have a relation to hypnotism without laying special stress on its therapeutic value, as we have already seen was the case with many French investigators. As far as Germany is concerned the works of Lilienthal, Rieger, Drucker, Heberle, Loos, and Neumeister must here be named, which inquired into the legal side of the question. Krafft-Ebing published an extremely detailed experimental study of two cases; Max Dessoir compiled a valuable bibliography of modern hypnotism, with appendix; further, Nussbaum, Nonne, Bleuler, Otto Effertz, }Rickel, Kocks, Maack, D. Weiss, Sallis, Binder, Dreher, Moravcsik, Hebold, Hitzig, William Hirsch, Straaten and Tromner must be named. A short but useful book on hypnotism was long ago produced by Minde, who rescued from oblivion many little known facts contained in ancient and modem literature.

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Here, too, we must specially mention various works on psychology in which hypnotism is also discussed, such as Wundt's Grundziige der Physiolo;ischen Psychologie, and the same author's Grundriss tier Psychologie; likewise James's books on psychology; also the new edition of Volkmann's Lehrhuch der Psychologie by Cornelius, and the works of Paul Carus, Knlpe, Hoefler, Miinsterberg, Lipps, and finally Heilmann and Jahn's Psycho/ogle als Grunawissenchaft der Pddagogik.

It would be altogether a mistake to fix the therapeutic value of hypnosis as the standard by which it is to be judged, for that would lead to the neglect of other factors; for example, the psychological importance of the subject. As a matter of fact, a series of investigators have recognized the great value of hypnotism, particularly in this direction—above all, Krafft-Ebing, Forel, Max Dessoir, and Ribot. In Germany many scientific societies have made valuable contributions to this branch of the subject. Such are the Psychological Society in Munich and the former Society for Experimental Psychology in Berlin, to which we owe a series of remarkable works by Max Dessoir, Bastian, Hellwald and Bentivegni. Later on, Vogt, of Berlin, called special attention to hypnosis as a means of psychological research. By some psychologists—Wundt, for example—it

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