Advanced Suggestion (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: design to deceive and baffle, because it paid so well, until the lady overreached herself by embezzling some of the funds which had been given in aid of poor people suffering in the same way. Her behaviour upon accusation revealed the fact to the least acute beholder that she had for the most part been shamming. Her hurried volitional departure for fresh fields completed her cure, indignant protestations of innocency appeared to help enormously in dissipating most of her symptoms. More difficult still are cases in which stigmata of degeneration are to be found, such as badly shaped heads, marked asymmetry in facial features or in the organs of special sense. One might imagine that such cases should really be classed as quite unsuitable for induction of the subconscious; but the fact is that many of them improve greatly under its training. I have frequently seen decided asymmetry of features become absolutely regular. No notes might be considered complete in these days unless some reference were made to the types of psychasthenia incidental to active warfare. But the fact is that such cases need little special consideration, for they fall naturally into the various categories of nerve and mind disorders which are occasionally observable in times of peace; their treatment will require little more additional study, once the principles of treatment by psychotherapy are appreciated as applying to strains and stresses of neurone function whatever the nature of the causation may be. Hysteria Everyone must allow that a patient whose symptoms exhibit in a few hours trains of thought which range from exhibitions of the clearest and most capable intelligence to moods of pugnacious recalcitrancy that will brook no reasonable correction, which present features distracting to anxiou...