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[47] A collection of such cases will be found in ,” pp 124-155

But, after all, it is not necessary to insist on such extreme instances in order to demonstrate the essential instability and divisibility of that which we commonly have in mind e speak of the ”self”

Dissociation of personality is in evidence every day in the pathetic syy of the various insanities, and in the chronic, if oftensufferers from the manifold affections of hysteria, such as we dealt with in the chapter on ”Dissociation and Disease” It is in evidence in the victi excesses, who, in a very literal sense, s quite alien fro which their usual self afterward has no knowledge

Even northening of the organisly is dissociation evident in the phenomena of the state of artificial sleep induced by hypnotism

It would carry us too far from the point now under consideration to enter here into any discussion of the nature and mechanism of hypnotisency, not simply for therapeutic purposes but for the study and exploration ofof immediate importance is the fact that under the influence of hypnotism a person invariably develops a self , conscious self

Hypnotized, he is to all outward see around him But let the hypnotist speak to him, question hient as to indicate that, in some respects, at all events, he is h, however, coiven to him are, within certain lireeable or absurd they may be

Later, when awakened, he is in precisely the same position as are victims of spontaneous dissociation--such as the Philadelphia plu neurasthene, BCA That is to say, he is unable to give any account of what he has said and done during hypnosis

Thus the effect of hypnotise so profound as to involve the action, within a single organism, of two separate selves

This has been deators, including physicians and psychologists of international reputation

Moreover, these investigators have shown that, even after a person has been brought out of the hypnotic state, the self evoked by hypnotism may in so for a moment its existence and influence

Impressive proof of this is found in the execution of what are known as post-hypnotic co de-hypnotized, he is to perfornal, or at the expiration of a certain ti state, he re of the coiven, or the appointed time arrives, he feels an irresistible, and to hiested idea

Thus, in one series of fifty-five experilish authority on hypnotis woman of nineteen, was ordered to perfor nu from three hundred tode-hypnotized, did she reh offered a liberal reward if she could recall the coiven her

Nevertheless, only two of the fifty-five experiments were complete failures, while in forty-five she executed the conated, and in the remainder was at no time more than five minutes out of the way As to the complete failures, Doctor Bramwell ascertained that in one instance she had iven, and in the other the circuht have been executed without his being aware of it[48]

[48] These experiments by Doctor Bras of the Society for Psychical Research_, vol xii, pp 176-203

Equally astonishi+ng results are reported by the brilliant group of French under the direction of Doctor A A Liebeault, were the first to ation of the cause and effects, the possibilities and liators, Doctor Hippolyte Bernheim, once hypnotized an old soldier, and asked him:

”On what day in the first week of October will you be at liberty?”

”On the Wednesday”

”Well,” said Doctor Bernheim, ”on that day you will pay a visit to Doctor Liebeault; you will find in his office the president of the republic, ill present you with a medal and a pension”

The soldier was then awakened and questioned as to what had been said to hi However, on Wednesday, October 3, Doctor Liebeault wrote to Doctor Bernheim:

”Your soldier has just called at my house He walked to my bookcase, and made a respectful salute; then I heard hiht hand, and said: 'Thanks, your excellency' I asked hi 'Why, to the president of the republic' He turned again to the bookcase and saluted, then went away The witnesses to the scene naturally askedI answered that he was not mad, but as reasonable as they or I, only another person was acting in hiestion dans l'etat Hypnotique,” p 29

Co little story told by Doctor Prince

”Wishi+ng to test the co influence of post-hypnotic coested to one of my subjects, Mrs R, after she was hypnotized, that on the following day, when she went down to dinner, she would put on her bonnet, and keep it on during the whole of dinner time The next day I received a letter froical Journal_, vol cxxii, p 463