| Description | This is a CLASSIC!! Hypnotic Therapeutics in Theory and Practice With Numerous Illustrations of Treatment by Suggestion by John Duncan Quackenbos, A.M., M.D. 1908 first edition. This is an unusual and important work on hypnotherapy. Discusses auto-suggestion, therapeutic applications of suggestion including treatment for: Neurasthenia, delusions, obsessions, theomania (obsessed with visions of God), erotomania, infatuation, drink & drug habits, moral disease, and more. There are parts of this book that are a riot!! The turn of the century thoughts on addiction, homosexuality, schizophrenia, and other "mental" disorders is both terrifying and hysterical (hysteria, treatable through hypnotic therapeutics). Highly recommended for psychology students and historians of social attitudes. |
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