Hypnotism / by Albert Moll.

  • Moll, Albert.
Date:
1890
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    that these extend to the time following. We call this post-hypnotic suggestion. By means of this we can tell the person in the hypnotic state that after his awakening a particular result will follow. We can also distinguish another kind of suggestion : some- thing may be suggested to the subject before the hypnosis, which is to follow in that state. This is pre-hypnotic suggestion. (i) Physiology. We will now pass to a discussion of the functions of the individual organs. The alterations which we find in hypnosis affect the voluntary and involuntary muscles as well as the organs of sense, common sensation, the secretions, metabolism, and in rare cases also the cell power of organization. ^ The voluntary muscles show the most frequent abnormalities, and suggestion exercises a most extraordinary influence over their functions during hypnosis. We will ask, first of all, what is the state of the functions of the voluntary muscles during hypnosis, when no kind of external influence is exercised. There are the greatest differences, ac- cording to the method of hypnotization selected, and according to the character of the subject. Some are able to move with perfect freedom during hypnosis till the command of the experimenter inhibits some particular movement; many, on the contrary, look as if they were asleep. In this case we see no move- ments, or very rare ones, which are slow and laboured. When we discuss the phenomena of suggestion we shall see that this incapacity for move- ment cannot in rare cases be removed by the com- mand of the hypnotist. It is to be understood that