The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein.

  • Waldstein, Louis, 1853-1915.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    of the legislator and the jurist very considerably in the near future ; the investigations of Liegeois give abundant evidence of the importance of the subject. It will be necessary to determine in how^ far the hypnotized individual can be held legally responsible before the law. I need not refer to the different theories of legal punishment, and to the end which it is meant to serve, whether as a deterrent, a reprisal, or a protection to society. We need here only consider protection to society. I have never been able to make any of my subjects perform acts resembling crimes of violence by post- hypnotic suggestion, while I have been success- ful in most cases where harmless acts had been suggested. The subject either remem- bered the giving of the command, or could be made to remember the facts by the method of throwing out hints to assist memory. In the case, for instance, of a highly educated gentle- man, the injunction that a harmless thing should be done by him five minutes after awakening out of an incomplete hypnosis was resisted