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Pages 65-66 The Science of Hypnotism L. E. Young 1931, Chapter 4, Methods of Dr Leibault (founder of the Nancy School in France)
""The patient paying his first visit is directed to sit down and watch treatment being applied to other. This gives confidence, arouses that imitative faculty which is so active in childhood, and is never lost throughout adult life. When his turn comes he is told to take his place in an armchair, and to make his mind as blank as possible -- to think of nothing-- nothing at all -- and to fix his eyes and attention on some special object; almost anything will do, from the operators face or hand to a mark on the ceiling or a pattern of the carpet.
"Then the Phenomena, or in other words the hypnotic sleep, which attend the on-coming of natural sleep are gradually 'suggested' to him.
"About two minutes of this "Talk and Sleep" will usually produce the hypnotic effect on a new patient, and on subsequent visits even less time is required. The patient being more or less influenced, Dr. Liebault now proceeds with the treatment proper. This consists essentially in directing the invalids attention to the part affected and suggesting an amelioration or disappearance of the morbid condition and symptoms.
"To take a very simple case - let us suppose the malady is chronic nervous headache. The part of the head affected is generally rubbed, so that the patient's attention shall be attracted to it, and he is told that the pain is to disappear -- that he will awake feeling his head cool, clear and comfortable, and that there is to be no return of trouble. In ordinary cases the whole procedure will not have lasted more than five minutes...."
"Long acquaintance with this system prevents an inhabitant of Nancy from regarding it as anything remarkable, and a sick person consults Dr. Liebault just as he would consult any other physician, with the simple idea that the treatment will do him good. He does not trouble himself with metaphysical theories, but is content to know that some acquaintance has been cured of a complain similar to his own, and that he himself hopes to be relieved in a few few days......."
"The fulfillment of the first suggestion tends to augment the patients confidence, and leads to the more ready reception of those which follow....."
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""The patient paying his first visit is directed to sit down and watch treatment being applied to other. This gives confidence, arouses that imitative faculty which is so active in childhood, and is never lost throughout adult life. When his turn comes he is told to take his place in an armchair, and to make his mind as blank as possible -- to think of nothing-- nothing at all -- and to fix his eyes and attention on some special object; almost anything will do, from the operators face or hand to a mark on the ceiling or a pattern of the carpet.
"Then the Phenomena, or in other words the hypnotic sleep, which attend the on-coming of natural sleep are gradually 'suggested' to him.
"About two minutes of this "Talk and Sleep" will usually produce the hypnotic effect on a new patient, and on subsequent visits even less time is required. The patient being more or less influenced, Dr. Liebault now proceeds with the treatment proper. This consists essentially in directing the invalids attention to the part affected and suggesting an amelioration or disappearance of the morbid condition and symptoms.
"To take a very simple case - let us suppose the malady is chronic nervous headache. The part of the head affected is generally rubbed, so that the patient's attention shall be attracted to it, and he is told that the pain is to disappear -- that he will awake feeling his head cool, clear and comfortable, and that there is to be no return of trouble. In ordinary cases the whole procedure will not have lasted more than five minutes...."
"Long acquaintance with this system prevents an inhabitant of Nancy from regarding it as anything remarkable, and a sick person consults Dr. Liebault just as he would consult any other physician, with the simple idea that the treatment will do him good. He does not trouble himself with metaphysical theories, but is content to know that some acquaintance has been cured of a complain similar to his own, and that he himself hopes to be relieved in a few few days......."
"The fulfillment of the first suggestion tends to augment the patients confidence, and leads to the more ready reception of those which follow....."
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