CONTENTS

Introduction -- History of hypnotism -- Mesmer -- Puysegur -- Braid --

What is hypnotism? -- Theories of hypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis Theory; 3. Suggestion Theory

Chapter I -- How to Hypnotize -- Dr. Cocke's method-Dr. Flint's method -- The French method at Paris -- At Nancy -- The Hindoo silent method -- How to wake a subject from hypnotic sleep -- Frauds of public hypnotic entertainments.

Chapter II -- Amusing experiments -- Hypnotizing on the stage -- "You can't pull your hands apart!" -- Post-hypnotic suggestion -- The newsboy, the hunter, and the young man with the rag doll -- A whip becomes hot iron -- Courting a broom stick -- The side-show

Chapter III -- The stages of hypnotism -- Lethargy-Catalepsy -- The somnambulistic stage -- Fascination

Chapter IV -- How the subject feels under hypnotization -- Dr. Cocke's experience -- Effect of music -- Dr. Alfred Warthin's experiments

Chapter V -- Self hypnotization -- How it may be done -- An experience -- Accountable for children's crusade -- Oriental prophets self- hypnotized

Chapter VI -- Simulation -- Deception in hypnotism very common -- Examples of Neuropathic deceit -- Detecting simulation -- Professional subjects -- How Dr. Luys of the Charity Hospital at Paris was deceived -- Impossibility of detecting deception in all cases -- Confessions of a professional hypnotic subject

Chapter VII -- Criminal suggestion -- Laboratory crimes -- Dr. Cocke's experiments showing criminal suggestion is not possible -- Dr. William James' theory -- A bad man cannot be made good, why expect to make a good man bad?

Chapter VIII -- Dangers in being hypnotized Condemnation of public performances -- A commonsense view -- Evidence furnished by Lafontaine; by Dr. Courmelles; by Dr. Hart; by Dr. Cocke -- No danger in hypnotism if rightly used by physicians or scientists

Chapter IX -- Hypnotism in medicine -- Anesthesia -- Restoring the use of muscles -- Hallucination -- Bad habits

Chapter X -- Hypnotism of animals -- Snake charming

Chapter XI -- A scientific explanation of hypnotism -- Dr. Hart's theory

Chapter XII -- Telepathy and Clairvoyance -- Peculiar power in hypnotic state -- Experiments -- "Phantasms of the living" explained by telepathy

Chapter XIII -- The Confessions of a Medium -- Spiritualistic phenomena explained on theory of telepathy -- Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of the Psychical Research Society