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Hypnosis & Suggestion in Psychotherapy; a Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism [Hardcover]1964A real textbook by a real professor October 3, 2010By bernie HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICEIf you are going to get into Psychotherapy or about those who do, then you will need to cut through the lay and pseudoscience Grocery store books and read the real thing.At the time, this book was written H. Bernheim, M.D. was Professor on faculty of medicine at Nancy.To understand how this book is laid out I will have to insert a little bit from the introduction -This book is a classic in the history of hypnotism and of psychotherapy the first part of the book consists of nine chapters on the nature of hypnosis, was first published in France in 1884; the second, consisting of two chapters and 105 case studies, was first added in 1886 with the new pre-face in 1887; the English translation appeared in the following year, in 1888.Abbreviated table of contents:Manner of hypnotizingPhenomena noticed in hypnotic sleepObservations on different types of somnambulismCirculation and respiration in hypnotismSuggestion in the waking conditionReply to criticsHistorical sketchThe author’s theoretical conception of the interpretation of phenomena of suggestionGen. Applications of the doctrine of suggestionImagination as a therapeutic agentAs you can see this book has hours of fun reading. It is not easy to find good textbooks on the subject. However, this is one of the best.Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 10 for doing this work in a relatively easy way.If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please post back the final pdf and I’d also appreciate the project files as well (please PM if you do).