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Excerpt from Hypnotic Therapeutics in Theory and Practice, Treatment by Suggestion, Vol. 1 Seven years have elapsed since the author of this monograph, in response to requests from many friends of his work, published in a manual entitled Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture, the conclusions derived from a series of experiments with Suggestion as a means of dealing with moral obliquity and of developing and exalting mind power. Since the appearance of the initial volume, he has devoted his attention, exclusively and with little interruption, to a practical application of suggestional methods in the treatment of a most instructive miscellany of physical and mental conditions. The present book is thus no mere lattermath. It is a record of many thousand recent experiences, covering seven years of investigation. An ever growing interest on the part of enlightened men and women in psychical therapeutics, supplemented by his own apprehension of the force of mind as a singularly potent curative instrumentality in the fields of medicine and psychiatry, and as a regenerating power in that of criminal anthropology, would seem to justify the author in placing the results of his personal experience, together with his conception of the psychology of suggestion, at the disposal of an intelligent public. This he essays to do, modestly, but with the courage of conviction, in the pages that follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.