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it in our patients except in cases of absolute
necessity. This being said, let me add that most
of the accusations against hypnotism are grossly
exaggerated. So far I know of no well
authenticated proof of a criminal act committed by a
subject under post-hypnotic suggestion. I have
never seen a suggestion made under hypnosis
carried out by the subject which he or she would
refuse to carry out if made during normal waking
state. I affirm that if a blackguard should
suggest to a woman under profound hypnosis
that she should surrender herself to him and she
should carry out this suggestion, it would mean
that she would as readily have done so had the
suggestion been made to her in a normal condition
of waking life. There is no such thing as blind
obedience. The subject knows quite well what
is going on the whole time and what he is willing
or unwilling to do. Camille, Professor Liéjoie’s
famous somnambulist in Nancy, who would
remain impassive and indifferent when a pin was
stuck full length through her arm or a piece of
burning charcoal put in her hand, would blush
scarlet when the Professor pretended to make a
gesture as if to disarrange her clothes, and wake
up instantaneously. This is only one of the
many baffling contradictions familiar to students
of hypnotic phenomena and most difficult for
the outsiders to understand. The fact that the
person cannot be hypnotized without his or her
will, must not be overlooked by the alarmists.
Of course all talk about an unwilling and unaware
person being hypnotized at a distance is sheer
nonsense. So also is Psycho-Analysis.
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