Psychological Automatism

VI. Interpretation of the phenomena of suggestion. The reign of perceptions..................156
VII. The character of suggestible individuals..........................................................................160
Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................170
Part Two. Partial Automatism Partial Automatism refers to actions performed without the subject's conscious will or awareness, often while they are awake. .................................................................................172

Chapter I. Subconscious acts.......................................................................................172

I. Partial catalepsies A state of muscular rigidity affecting only specific parts of the body. ............................................................................................173
II. Distraction and subconscious acts ...................................................................181
III. Post-hypnotic suggestions. History and description ...................................187
IV. Execution of suggestions during a new somnambulistic state Somnambulism here refers to a deep hypnotic trance. ..................190
V. Subconscious execution of post-hypnotic suggestions ......................................194
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................204

Chapter II. Anesthesias and simultaneous psychological existences ......................205

I. Systematized anesthesias. – History Loss of sensation limited to a specific object or person, often induced by suggestion................................................................205
II. Persistence of sensation despite systematized anesthesia ...................................209
III. Electivity or systematized esthesia ..........................................................................213
IV. Complete anesthesia or the natural anesthesia of hysterics ................................218
V. Different hypotheses regarding the phenomena of anesthesia................................225
VI. Psychological disaggregation A key term in early psychology (now often called dissociation) describing the breakdown of the unity of the mind. .............................................................................229
VII. Simultaneous psychological existences............................................................235
VIII. Simultaneous psychological existences compared to successive
psychological existences ..............................................................................................242
IX. Relative importance of the various simultaneous existences ........................................250
X. Anesthesia and paralysis .......................................................................................257
XI. Paralyses and contractures explained by psychological disaggregation .263
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................269

Chapter III. Various forms of psychological disaggregation....................................272

I. The divining rod. – The exploratory pendulum. – Thought reading. ..........272
II. Historical summary of spiritism The belief or practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead. ...............................................................................279
III. Hypotheses regarding spiritism..............................................................................285
IV. Spiritism and psychological disaggregation .....................................................293
V. Comparison of mediums and somnambulists .....................................................298
VI. Cerebral duality as an explanation for spiritism .............................................305
VII. On impulsive insanity ...............................................................................309