Joseph Murphy

An Irish-born minister with the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles, writing in the 1960s about what he called the subconscious as a mechanism that accepts instruction without judgement.

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind argues that repeated suggestion, particularly before sleep, reshapes belief and therefore circumstance, and it moves between prayer, autosuggestion and reported healings without distinguishing much between them. It has stayed in print for sixty years. The healing claims are anecdotal throughout and the book should be read as New Thought religious writing rather than as psychology.