autosuggestion

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

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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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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.

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Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion?

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This objection is really artificial, arising from the fact that we ignore the true nature of autosuggestion and regard it merely as a remedy.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile