autosuggestion

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The undertaker thereupon makes D�sir� sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reappearance of these hairs after the grafting operation certainly cannot be ascribed to autosuggestion, to which certain critics have ascribed other phenomena that follow the greffes testiculaires.

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I'm sure he absorbed chemistry by autosuggestion, because certainly he was walking in his sleep when he left home washed, properly dressed, fed and equipped with lunch.

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But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion.

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He was, I think, the first Englishman to come to Nancy with the express purpose of studying my method of conscious autosuggestion.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile