Hypnotism : its history, practice and theory / by J. Milne Bramwell.

  • Bramwell, J. Milne (John Milne), 1852-
Date:
1913
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    CHAPTER IV. PAQR Susceptibility to Hypnosis and the Causes which influence it 57 (1) Average susceptibility and various statistics, 57. My own cases: (Group I.) from my own practice, 58 ; (Group II.) sent to me by colleagues, 58. (2) Susceptibility in reference to the Depth of Hypnosis, 59 :—Nationality, 61. Sex, 61. Age, 62. Social Position, 62. Physical Condition, 63. Sense Stimulation, 63. Mental Condition:—(a) General Intelligence, 63. (6) Volition and Attention, 64. (c) Faith, 64. (d) Self-suggestion, 64. (e) Imitation, 64. (/) Behaviour of spectators, 65. Morbid Mental and Physical Conditions :—(a) Mental excitement and fear, 65. (5) Insanity, Hysteria, etc., 66. Nervous Diseases and - their Influence on Susceptibility to Hypnosis :—(a) Attention in Disease, 67. (5) Duration of illness, 67. (c) Morbid self-suggestion, 68. Natural Somnambulism and Hysterical Sleep, 68. Natural Sleep,'68. Narcotics, 69. Operator, 69. Number of attempts, 71. Conclusion, 72. CHAPTER V. The Experimental Phenomena of Hypnosis ... 74 (I.) The Physiological Phenomena of Hypnosis : (A) Changes in the Voluntary Muscular System, 74 :—Echolalia, 74. Paralysis, 76. Stages of the Salpetriere School:—Lethargy, Catalepsy, Somnambulism, 77. Remarks, 77. Summary, 80. (B) Changes in the Involuntary Muscular and Vasomotor Systems, 81 :—Pulse, 81. Respiration, 82. Bleeding, 82. Local Redness of Skin, 83. Blistering, etc., 83. Changes of Temperature, 84. Remarks, 85. Menstruation, 87. Action of the Bowels, 87. Hrine, 87. Lachrymal Secretion, 87. Perspiration, 88. Secretion of Milk, 88. (C) Changes in the Special Senses, Muscular Sense, Common Sensations and Appetites : (1) Increased Action, 89 :— Sight, 89. Hearing, 89. Smell, 90. Muscular Sense, 90. Common Cutaneous Sensibility, 91. Thermo-sensibility, 92. Appetites: Hunger and Thirst, 92. (2) Decreased, Arrested, and Distorted Action, 93 :— Hallucinations as classified by Lidgeois, 93. Motor Hallucinations, 93. Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 94. Hunger and Thirst, 95. (II.) The Psychological Phenomena of Hypnosis : (A) Post-Hypnotic Suggestions, 95 : — (1) Persistent from Hypnosis, 95. (2) Deferred, 95. (B) Rapport in Hypnosis, 96. (C) Consciousness in Hypnosis and its Relations to Post-Hypnotic Memory, 97. (D) Spontaneity in Hypnosis, 98. Defini- tion of spontaneity, 98 :—(1) Processes independent of external stimuli, 99. (2) Actions elicited, but not conditioned in character by external stimuli, 99. (E) Memory in Hypnosis:—Unchanged, improved, or dimin- ished, 100. Persisting during hypnosis ; incomplete to events of hyp- nosis on awaking, 101. Persisting during hypnosis ; lost as to events of hypnosis on awaking, 101. Effects of hypnotic training in increasing and reviving hypnotic memory, 103. Post-hypnotic Amnesia, 104. Sub- jects unable in response to suggestion to recall during hypnosis certain