self-suggestion

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Dr Hugh Wingfield stated to the Society for Psychical Research that the case of one of his patients proved that hallucinations could be produced by self-suggestion.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles

The belief that his brain is ill may have induced him to give up effort of the will instead of helping along by steady self-suggestion.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

We know no better with self-suggestion than with suggestion from outside why it is that one man succeeds where others fail, or why a man who succeeds once fails in his next attempt.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Fearthought he defines as the "self-suggestion of inferiority"; so that one may say that these systems all operate by the suggestion of power.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

If such susceptibility to self-suggestion could be reached by patients generally, there might be, with no miracle at all, a removal of perhaps half the annoyance which deafness inflicts on mankind.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)