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discussed the therapeutics of suggestion at the International Medical Congress
in Berlin. At the meeting of the British Medical Association held at Bournemouth
in 1891, A. Voisin addressed the Section of Psychiatry on the criminal importance
of hypnotic suggestion; and at the International Medical Congress, Moscow, 1897,
Bernheim called attention to the importance of hypnotism and suggestion for
medical jurisprudence. At the three International Congresses for Experimental
Psychology, interesting communications on hypnotism were brought forward; the
London Congress of 1892 was divided into two sections, one of which was specially
devoted to hypnotism, F. Myers being its secretary, and Eeden read
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a long paper on the principles of psycho-therapeutics.
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notism was also discussed at the third International Congress of Psychology,
in Munich in 1897; and at the Congress of Psychology held in Rome in 1905, both
hypnotism and suggestion were dealt with.' At the Congress of Criminal Anthropology
held in Brussels in 1892, hypnotism was discussed. In 1894, at the International
Medical Congress in Rome, Hirt introduced the subject of hypnosis; Sollier and
Benedikt appeared as opponents, and the chief advocates of the value of hypnotic
therapeutics, besides Hirt, were Hitzig and Berillon. In 1897, a Congress of
Neurology, Psychiatry, Electro-therapeutics, and Hypnology met in Brussels.
Liegeois addressed the congress on criminal suggestion, Bramwell on the therapeutic
value of hypnotism, Castelain on suggestion in everyday life, and Aime on the
value of hypnotic suggestion in the waking state. The question of using hypnotism
and suggestion in the treatment of children considered criminals, but in reality
psychopathic, was discussed by Jules Voisin and Berillon at the Congress of
Criminal Anthropology held at Amsterdam in 1901, and the value of hypnosis and
suggestion in relation to the psychology of crowds was outlined in the reports
handed in by Jelgersma and Sighele. At the Congress of the South-Western Association
of German Alienists which was held in Stuttgart in 1902, a discussion on hypnotism
and psycho-therapeutics followed on an address by Franck and a communication
by Bezzola, in which Krehl and Hecker took part. Hypnotism was also discussed
at the Thirteenth Congress of French-speaking Alienists and Neurologists in
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