Title: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUGGESTION: A RESEARCH INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS NATURE OF MAN AND SOCIETY
Author: Boris Sidis
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
City: New YorkYear: 1898 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 386, plus 4 pp of advertisements at endIllustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Scarce first edition (later printing?) from 1898 of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUGGESTION: A RESEARCH INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS NATURE OF MAN AND SOCIETY. Original blue cloth boards. Overall a very good, clean, and solid copy: Slight shelfwear and bumped corners; faded spots on boards; rubbing to spine edges; embossed stamp of former owner on endpaper; library stamp on title page and rear inside board. Pages are clean and free of writing. A contemporary reviewer wrote "This book commends
itself not only to psychologists, but also to physicians, and especially to
alienists and neurologists, for whom it contains many suggestions, both as to
the nature of some diseases of the nervous system and also as to their
diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. In this connection, one of its most
practical aspects comes out in the discussion of the types of amnesia. The
author shows, for instance, that amnesia may be normal and merely temporary and
functional; or it may be irretraceable and curable; or it may be absolute and
incurable, and more than this, he believes that he can demonstrate that it is
possible, by making use of the methods of the psychologist, to differentiate
these forms of amnesia, to refer them to their anatomical and physiological
bases, to separate the curable from the incurable, and to treat the latter by
special methods which arise out of investigations into the psychical nature of
the subjects of the amnesia. The cases which he adduces to illustrate this
position are of great interest, and in most respects convincing". Please see photos for more detail in Table of Contents.