Heilung durch Hypnose

The author writes in a clinical rather than theoretical vein, maintaining that the value of hypnotic therapy is generally underestimated; that with the aid of sedatives it can be applied to 90 per cent of subjects; that the field of psychiatry yields relatively unfavorable results, because mental diseases are firmly anchored in the brain, but that useful results can be secured as a rule in the chronic noninfectious as well as in the functional diseases which comprise much of the medical practice. He outlines the methods which he employs, making no claim for novelty, and indicates what he believes could be their use in diseases of various systems and organs. In all instances, he adds, psychotherapy must be added to hypnosis if the patient is to achieve a real adjustment to his environment.

"The working of hypnosis," he states, "naturally derives from the central nervous system and therefore a sound