Hypnotism or Suggestion and Psychotherapy: A Study of Psychological, Psycho-Physiological and Therapeutic Aspects of Hypnotism

London: Rebman Limited, 1906 Book. Very Good-Very Good +. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. xii, 370 pp, preface to the First English Edition; preface to the First Edition, preface to the Fifth Edition, I. Consciousness and the Hypothesis of Identity (Monism). II. The Relationship of Nerve Activity to Nerve Substance and to the Conditions of Consciousness. III. General Remarks of Hypnotism. IV. Suggestion: 1. Hypnotizibility or Suggestibility; 2. Sleep and Hypnosis; 3. Degrees of Hypnosis; 4. Training; 5. The Phenomena of Hypnosis; 6. Resistance of the Hypnotized Person -- Autosuggestion; 7. Posthypnotic Phenomena; 8. Amnesia, or Loss of Memory; 9. Suggestion as to Time (Suggestion 'a echeance'); 10. Waking Suggestion; 11. The Condition of the Mind during the carrying out of Posthypnotic Suggestions, 'Termineingebungen' and Waking Suggestions; 12. Lasting Results of Suggestion; 13. Hallucinationretroactive, or Suggested Falsification of Memory; 14. Simulation and Disimulation of Hypnosis; 15. The Significance of Suggestion; 16. The Nature of the Action of Suggestion. V. Suggestion and Disorders of the Mind -- Hysteria. VI. Hints to the Practitioner on Suggestive Treatment and Psychotherapeutics; VII. Hypnotism and Psychotheratpy; VIII. Examples of Cures Effected by Suggestion: A Case of Spontaneous Somnambulism; The Cure of Constipation, and the Rationale of It. IX. A Case of Hysterical, Partly Retrogressive Amnesia, with Protracted Somnabulism, Analyzed and Cured by Suggestion; X. A Case of Double Consciousness; XI. Suggestion in Its Relation to Medicine and to Quackery; XII. The Forensic Aspect of Suggestion; XIII. Hypnotism and the Medical Schools; XIV. Suggestion in Animals -- The Winter and Summer Sleepers; XV. Appendix: A Hypnotized Hypnotist; index. Translated from the Fifth German Edition by H. W. Armit. First American Edition, 1906. Owner's ex libris plate on front pastedown with inked initials on ffep. Slightly age-toned text block edges, else, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Greyish-green cloth with red leather title plate, gilt borders and lettering to spine..