The psychology of health and happiness / by La Forest Potter.

  • Potter, La Forest, 1855-
Date:
1897
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Credit: The psychology of health and happiness / by La Forest Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    investigation and application of this mental law will lead to possibilities far beyond hypnotic product, since it will appeal constantly rather than fitfully to the progressive need of each mentality; and in proportion as it is applied wisely, in that proportion will also he or she who applies it progress. From the influence of ] one playmate over another, which primarily ' means a desire to imitate something in the sug- gestor, to those examples with which life teems, the concentration is determined by the charac- ter of the suggestion. It is believed that the following propositions may be predicated as es- tablishing a provisional therapy: First, all dis- ease may be cured by concentration through suggestion; second, concentration may be ac- complished by impressing the will centre (imita- tion) by unusual stimulus. Unusual stimuli concern that class of environment which appeals with special power to the imitation centre. Suggestion or environment is the stimulus from without or within through which the imitation centre reacts. Under the head of fundamental stimulations or suggestions are included all those phenomena which are intuitional. The intuition concerns life preservation, and is as potent in the savage as in the last product of the intellect, as vivid