V. M. Bekhterev was director of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg and founded there its Psychoneurological Institute.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Foreword to the Second Edition
Foreword to the Third Edition
Different Views on the Nature of Suggestion
p. 1
The Definition of Suggestion
p. 11
Suggestion and Persuasion
p. 17
Suggestion in the Hypnotic State
p. 21
Suggestion in the Waking State
p. 25
The Importance of Faith
p. 31
Unintentional Suggestion and Mutual Suggestion
p. 39
Concerning the Suggestion of Thoughts
p. 41
Paths of Influencing One Another through Suggestion
p. 47
Collective or Mass Illusions and Hallucinations
p. 51
Inalterable Hallucinatory Sensations and the Importance of Auto-Suggestion
p. 59
Suggestion as a Factor in Mass Self-Destructive Acts of the Russian Sectarians, and Suicide Epidemics
p. 61
Murder and Robbery Epidemics
p. 67
Epidemics of Convulsions in History
p. 73
Witchcraft and Devil-Possession Epidemics
p. 77
Hysterical and Nervous Debility Epidemics
p. 85
Other Psychopathological Epidemics of a Religious Variety
p. 95
The Paranoiac Malevannii as a Culprit in a Distinctive Psychopathological Epidemic
p. 101
The Malevannism Epidemic
p. 115
The Jehovah Psychopathological Epidemic
p. 121
The Tatar Psychopathological Epidemic in Kazan Province
p. 125
The Supanevo Psychopathological Epidemic in Orel Province
p. 131
The Novogrud Epidemic and the "Pavlovka Slaughter"
p. 135
Sectarian Collectivities and Epidemics
p. 137
A Chinese Epidemic of the I-Ho-Ch'uan Sect
p. 141
A Canadian Psychopathological Epidemic among Russian Dukhobors
p. 143
The Epidemic Dissemination of Mystical Doctrines
p. 145
A Free Love Epidemic
p. 149
Panic among People and Animals
p. 151
Psychic Epidemics during Historic Peoples' Movements
p. 157
Financial Speculation Epidemics
p. 161
The Importance of People's Collectivities for the Spread of Psychic Epidemics
p. 163
The Importance of Suggestion for Social Groups
p. 171
Index
p. 183
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