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A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis

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Foreword & Chapter 1 - What You Should Know About Self-Hypnosis
24:42
Chapter 2 - What About the Dangers of Hypnosis?
12:43
Chapter 3 - Is Hypnosis the Answer?
15:17
Chapter 4 - How Does Self-Hypnosis Work?
15:02
Chapter 5 - How to Arouse Yourself from the Self-Hypnotic State
7:53
Chapter 6 - How to Attain Self-Hypnosis
14:40
Chapter 7 - Deepening the Self-Hypnotic State
21:37
Chapter 8 - What You Should Know About Becoming an Excellent Subject
21:05
Chapter 9 - Techniques for Reaching the Somnambulistic State
21:08
Chapter 10 - A New Approach to Self-Hypnosis When All Else Fails
21:01
Chapter 11 - Psychological Aids and Their Function
18:22
Chapter 12 - The Nature of Hypnosis
11:55
Chapter 13 - Practical Applications of Self-Hypnosis
22:37

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Suggestion, rather than a mysterious loss of control, supplies Melvin Powers with his starting point for this 1961 handbook. He compares hypnosis directed by another person with the practice of giving suggestions to oneself, using familiar examples from advertising to explain his view of suggestibility. The chapters cover entering and leaving the hypnotic state, conditioning exercises, deeper states and practical applications.

Powers presents these methods as skills developed through patience and repeated practice. In the discussion of the somnambulistic state, he considers the complications of testing memory and argues that the deepest level is not essential to the results he describes. His foreword proposes self-hypnosis as an aid to therapy while acknowledging the need for judgment. Readers interested in the history of popular psychology will find a direct account of one author's methods, assumptions and therapeutic claims.