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SIMULATION 205

General principles (2o5)—Charcot's objective symptoms (207) Physical symptoms (207)—Psychical symptoms (213)—Limits of trustworthiness of objective symptons (215)—Probable signs of simulation (219)—Difficulty in judging the question of simulation (222).


CHAPTER VII.
THE THEORY OF HYPNOTISM ... ... 224

Limits to the possibility of explaining hypnosis (224).

Facts concerning our mental life (226)—Credulity (227)—Effects of belief (228)—Personal influence (232)—Feeling of incapacity to resist (233)—Dream-consciousness (233)—Disturbance of movement (234)—Hallucinations (236)—Rapport (239) —Negative hallucinations (24o)—Memory (243)—Max Dessoir's theory of the Double-Ego (244)—Post-hypnotic suggestions without (251) and with (254) loss of memory—Adherence to

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appointed time (256)—Analogies of post-hypnotic suggestion (258)—Post-hypnotic sense-delusions (261).

Other attempts at explanation (263)—Psychological theories (264)—Normal suggestibility (264)—Inhibitory processes (265)

Changes in attention (266)—Theories of association (267).

Physiological theories (268)—Heidenhain's theory (269)—Theory of localization (271)—Histological theories (271)—Theories based on the circulation of the blood in the brain (273)

Cappie's theory (275)—Wundt's theory (276)—Vogt's theory (277)—Preyer's theory (278).

CHAPTER VIII.
THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF HYPNOTISM 280

Importance of suggestion (28o)—Objections to suggestive therapeutics (281) — Authorities at variance (283) — Ewald's objection (285)—The

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