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I do not mean, of course, that hypnotic suggestion should be used in all instruction in the above activities. Quite the contrary, it should be resorted to only in exceptional cases, when a particular inability is clearly caused by a psychological attitude of fear or uncertainty and, consequently, by an inhibition. In fact, I do not recommend the application of hypnosis on a large scale. It should remain a powerful tool used with caution and discrimination. Men lived by feeling and faith long before they began to reason. In those early days, there was no knowledge, in the modern sense of the word, no inquiries into the nature and causes of things. People simply had beliefs and asked no questions. When they believed strongly, they felt strongly; they felt with every muscle and every tissue within them. Faith may not move mountains literally, but since ancient days it has moved every important organ in the body. And suggestion is the vehicle of faith, passing it from man to man, arousing crowds, spreading from chiefs down to their followers, rising from people up to their chosen leaders. Rooted in primitive tendencies, suggestion reaches deeper than most of us know. It is a power hard to measure and hard to control.

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There is no reason why hypnosis should not be applied in such a way to countless other problems, whenever its possible usefulness is indicated. Hypnotism, old as it is in irregular practice, is a newcomer to science and a very deserving and promising one. Superstition, either in favor of it or in opposition to it, is a vicious obstacle to the advance of knowledge.

The field of education is totally new to the hypnotist. The little work which I have done in it, however, has made me appreciate its potential significance. Though it is too early as yet to draw any specific conclusions from my experimental research begun several years ago, nevertheless certain general and fairly obvious considerations left no doubt in my mind that suggestion, ordinary and hypnotic, is of inestimable value for the school.

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McDougall offers us an illuminating comment : "If I meet an angry bear in the woods and take to my heels in fear, it would be true to say that the energy which sustains my efforts comes from within my organism, and is not in any sense supplied by the bear; the bear merely releases this energy within me. But it would not be true or useful to say that my fear was self-inspired and that the bear had nothing to do with the case or played but a secondary role in the drama."Once we comprehend this nature of the mechanism of suggestion, it is not difficult to infer that what is known as auto-suggestion can be used apart from somebody inspiring the subject only in exceptional cases. Ordinarily, it should not be practiced without the assistance of a qualified practician. A specialist is required not only to supervise, but also to inspire the subject, However, once the prestige-and-faith relationship is established and sufficiently strengthened, a mere recollection of the hypnotist's recommendations may be enough to stimulate the subject's autonomic system to action, again and again. Here lies the practical significance of, Outline of Abnormal Psychology, the method of auto-suggestion in its post-hypnotic application.

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In other instances, the subject is a victim of an unfavorable early environment, unfortunate experiences, marital difficulties, sex frustration. Here a qualified and experienced psychologist might be consulted. Or the subject should be given an opportunity to tell his life story at length and thus to find relief in conversational catharsis. If the case is rooted in some incorrigible physical defect bearing heavily upon the patient's mind-such as exceptionally bad looks, short stature, unusual fatness unyielding to sound diet-the possibilities for re-directing his interests should be investigated in order to provide him with a freer and more successful outlet for whatever abilities he may possess. Music, scientific research, nursing, and political work can be recommended as some of the best fields for sublimation of one's physical and mental energies. A hypnotic treatment may or may not be required to assure good results of catharsis and sublimation.

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As hypnosis is a state of high suggestibility, in which the autonomic nervous system inhibits or stimulates various mental and bodily activities or even capabilities; and as it depends largely on the practician what changes to produce in his subject and how to direct them- oneirosis is not so much a new form of hypnosis as the road toward modifying the hypnotic state so as to enable the scientist to do his psychological, educational, or medical work, as the case may be, with the maximum efficiency and success. The research along these lines has only begun. Much, so unbelievably much, remains to be done.

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It is obvious, of course, that unintelligent cooperation is of lesser value than cooperation based on a conscious and rational will. And deep hypnosis generally tends to make actions mechanical and irrational, and hence ineffectual in changed conditions. Furthermore, the subjects commonly resent any attempt on the part of the hypnotist to influence them in a way that does not meet their full approval. Consequently, the subject resents the suggestion and develops resistance and negativism.

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There are cases of another type, in which the hypnotist cannot be justly accused of levity or insufficient caution. "Every medical man who has had any considerable experience in the domain of hypnosis has probably come across laymen who endeavor to ascribe to hypnosis anything they find very peculiar, or for some reason or other unpleasant, or that they cannot quite understand. At times it is a case of seduction or a mysterious love affair, at others the provisions of a will or the exploitation of some business, that puzzles them." Needless to say, accusations of this sort are, as a rule, wholly imaginary, and hint of mental disease, such as schizophrenia or hysteria. A competent psychiatrist should be immediately consulted.

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What can be done, then, to attain a greater degree of reliability in treating objectionable habits? It is possible, of course, to renew the suggestion every once in a while, by hypnotizing the subject at regular intervals; yet it is often inconvenient to the subject as well as to the practician to repeat sittings beyond three or four times. Besides, as pointed out by O. H. Mowrer, there is some danger that the efficacy of post-hypnotic suggestion will be reduced by repeated sittings.

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This is doubtless true whenever the subject is asked to do something unusual or absurd. For were he to remember instructions distinctly, not only would his common sense resent the suggestion as clearly strange or foolish, but even the prestige of the practician might be damaged by doubts and resistance. Suppose the subject is instructed, on hearing the word "sunset," to stand on a chair and to sing some popular song in a loud voice. As the order is being executed, he may regard it as a joke, but still he will not deny that his conduct, at the moment, was somewhat ridiculous. And he will perhaps wonder what might be the connection between scientific research and such meaningless experiments.There is no need, however, to be engaged in trifling experiments. Hypnosis is, after all, a natural phenomenon rather than entertainment. There certainly are many serious and fruitful fields for post-hypnotic suggestion.

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Some hypnotists (Liébeault, Charcot, Bernheim, Forel and, especially, Bechterew) advocated to break the period of strained attention with a sudden change in experience, by sending a strong beam of light into the subject's eyes, by sounding a gong, or by a sharp command, "Sleep" The advantages of this method have not been clearly determined. It seems to precipitate the state at an earlier stage than with the usual procedure, but it entails risk of failure, if the moment is wrongly chosen. This technique is recommended, however, in cases when the subject appears to vacillate on the verge of the trance and closes his eyes only to open them again and again. The point is to watch the subject closely and to push him, as it were, into the state. The method requires considerable experience, and beginners should be discouraged from resorting to it. Even specialists should use it with discrimination.

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The role of prestige-and-faith relationship is so great in hypnosis that no practician can afford to disregard the "atmosphere" in which he works and conducts his experiments or treatments. Every detail matters, and the subjects are much more sensitive to them than is generally believed. The place where the hypnotist receives his subjects must be carefully selected. Freud related in one of his books that Bernheim, one of the most remarkable scientific hypnotists of all times, "frankly admitted to me that his great therapeutic successes by means of suggestion were only achieved in his hospital practice and not with his private patients." The reason for this fact is now obvious: the results of treatment depend on the subject's frame of mind.

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There is a phenomenon, for example, known to science Hypnotism and Psychotherapy, Hypnosis and Suggestibility, since the days of "animal magnetism," which reminds us more of hysteria than of ordinary sleep. This is the state of utter rigidity, usually designated as "catalepsy," which comes spontaneously or can be induced by suggestion in the deeper forms of hypnosis. The power of what amounts to "paralyzing by suggestion" was most effectively used and abused in popular demonstrations of hypnosis; the more so, as muscular rigidity can often be induced with remarkable ease. Such power of the hypnotist over muscles of his subject was well and concisely described by Moll:"Muscular activity can nearly always be influenced in a high degree by suggestion. By means of it we can make movements impossible, or else induce movements. I can make the subject's arm powerless to move simply by arousing in her (him) the conviction that her (his) arm is powerless. In just the same way the movements of the legs, trunk, larynx, etc., escape the subject's notice. 'You cannot raise your arm; cannot put out your tongue'. This suffices to make the forbidden movement impossible. In some cases the inability to move arises because the person cannot voluntarily contract his muscles, and his arm consequently hangs limp; while in other cases a contracture of the antagonistic muscles makes every attempt at a voluntary movement useless. In the same manner the leg will lose the power of motion at command. The power of speech can be taken away. And it is even possible to allow the muscles to contract for one particular purpose only. If we say to a hypnotic subject, 'you can only say your own name; for the rest you are absolutely dumb', the desired effect hypnotism, will be produced. In the same way it is possible to prevent movements of the arm for any particular purpose. Thus we can make it impossible for a person to write, though he will be able to do any other kind of work. The subject can sew, play the piano, etc., but all efforts to write are vain."

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It is significant that, in many instances of amnesia, when the patient is, as it seems, completely unable to recall his experiences since, or prior to, the onset of the symptom, hypnosis often helps to revive his memory. The dependence of recall on suggestion, and through it on the autonomic nervous system, is thereby confirmed. In order to appreciate fully the importance of these phenomena, however, we must get acquainted with the disease called hysteria. The symptoms of this malady resemble in many respects the subject's behavior in a hypnotic trance. The parallelism is so remarkably close that it is reasonable to. suspect that the bodily mechanism underlying hysteria and hypnosis is essentially the same.

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People can be made to see things which are not present or not to see objects in front of them. The experience produced in this manner may not be identical in kind with that of the ordinary waking state, but its realism is surely comparable to the realism of dreams. Thus, the sun will shine at night for the subject, and stars will be visible while the eyes are closed. The hallucinations resulting from hypnotic suggestion are even more convincing when the subject moves about. Then he behaves as if he actually saw things which are not there or as if he did not see objects before him, depending on the suggestion. In one experiment, for instance, a man was made "to walk into the wall from which he sustained a nose bleed when told to walk through an imaginary door in the wall."

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Surgery under hypnosis, doubtless, would have been practised more widely with time, had not the use of chemical anaesthesia spread during the subsequent years. It must be acknowledged that ether, chloroform and nitrous oxide have a considerable advantage over hypnosis. Unless the physician is a master of suggestion to start with, deep hypnosis is an exceedingly difficult tool: it may require years of training and experience, and even then one cannot be sure that every case will be one hundred percent successful. Ordinary anaesthetics, on the other hand, can be employed with great facility and certainty. Such was the situation which, unfortunately, made hypnosis impracticable, in its first bid for scientific recognition.

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Considerable experimental evidence indicates that, if anything, there is a slight positive relationship between suggestibility and intelligence." J. Milne Bramwell, too, says that he "found the stupid and unimaginative more difficult to influence than those possessing fair intelligence."It seems that direct suggestion requires an ability on the part of the subject to grasp the meaning of the hypnotist's instructions, and anything preventing such response makes practice so much more difficult. Insane people, as a rule, do not yield to suggestion as easily as do normal people, either because they shut themselves within their inner world, or because their minds are dim and incoherent, or else because their mental processes are too fast or too shifty to follow the steady process of verbal suggestion. Feeble-minded individuals, adults and children, are also exceedingly resistant to hypnosis.

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Dr. Cocke describes one or two experiments of his own which have an important bearing on the question of criminal suggestion. Says he: "A girl who was hypnotized deeply was given a glass of water and was told that it was a lighted lamp. A broomstick was placed across the room and she was told that it was a man who intended to injure her. I suggested to her that she throw the glass of water (she supposing it was a lighted lamp) at the broomstick, her enemy, and she immediately threw it with much violence. Then a man was placed across the room, and she was given instead of a glass of water a lighted lamp. I told her that the lamp was a glass of water, and that the man across the room was her brother. It was suggested to her that his clothing was on fire and she was commanded to extinguish the fire by throwing the lighted lamp at the individual, she having been told, as was previously mentioned, that it was a glass of water.

Dr. Cocke also declares his belief that no person can be hypnotized against his will by a person who is repugnant to him.

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"Suggest to a subject while he is sound asleep that in eight weeks he will mail you a letter with a blank piece of note paper inside, and during the intervening period you may yourself forget the occurrence, but in exactly eight weeks he will carry out the suggestion. Hypnotic suggestions of this nature are always carried out, especially when the suggestion is to take effect on some certain day or date named. Suggest to a subject that in ninety days from a given date he will come to your house with his coat on inside out, and he will most certainly do so."

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As the birth of her second child approached Mrs. Piper gave up what she considered a form of hysteria; but after the birth of the child the sittings, paid for at a dollar each, began again. Dr. Hodgson, of theLondon Society for Psychical Research, saw her at the house of Professor James, and he became so interested in her case that he decided to take her to London to be studied. She spent nearly a year abroad; and after her return the American branch of the Society for Psychical Research was formed, and for a long time Mrs. Piper received a salary to sit exclusively for the society. Their records and reports are full of the things she said and did.

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