‎BERNHEIM (H.)‎
‎De la suggestion et de ses applications à la thérapeutique -- EDITION ORIGINALE‎

‎P., Doin, 1886, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile éditeur, (reliure de l'époque), (quelques rousseurs), (2), 3pp., 428pp., figures dans le texte, 16pp. (catalogue de l'éditeur)‎

Reference : 476

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "Bernheim, a professor in the Faculté de médecine at Nancy, began studying hypnotism, suggestion and hysteria after observing Liébeault's method of treatment by induced sleep. After two years of working closely with Liébeault, Bernheim published the present work in which he stated that hypnosis was not a pathological state based on physiological processes, as Charcot claimed, but a purely psychological state closely connected with suggestion. Bernheim was the first to state that the stages of hypnosis posited by Charcot were actually artifacts produced by suggestion ; he also demonstrated that Charcot's "four-phase hysteria" was not an illness but a psychoneurotic reaction caused by suggestion, and curable by the same process. He believed that suggestibility was limited to hysterics but extended to the entire human race, and used the study of suggestibility to gain insight into human behavior. Historically this conception of Bernheim's should be considered the first known attempt to evolve a general understanding of human behavior and its motivation on the basis of the study of psychopathology rather than on the basis of philosophical systems". (Zilboorg p. 368) ---- CRABTREE N° 1127 : "The first part of this work is a republication of Bernheim's De la suggestion dans l'état hypnotique et dans l'état de veille... In the second part of the book, Bernheim discusses suggestion as a therapeutic agent. Beginning with a look at the traditional role of the imagination in healing through the ages, Bernheim places modern suggestive therapeutics in that historical stream. This introduction is followed by a long section on cases of specific illnesses Bernheim treated through hypnotic suggestion or through waking suggestion (Bernheim insists that the hypnotic state is not essential for effective treatment through suggestion). The book concludes with a chapter on the dangers to be guarded against in the use of hypnotism and suggestion. This work became the basic text used by the adherents of the Nancy School and holds a unique place in the history of hypnotism" ---- DSB II - Hunter & Macalpine p. 907 - Ellenberger - Postel & Quetel p. 583 - NORMAN N° 211**476/ARM2A‎