AUTO - AND DETERO - SUGGESTION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"] Sia,—Mr. Hobart-Hampden, in his letter to the Spectator of December 10th, relates his success with M. Cone's method of auto-suggestion as set forth by Professor Baudouin's: book, and he describes it as the Nancy method. Now, I studied suggestion-treatment under the late Dr. Liebeault about thirty years ago at Nancy, and I venture to call that unassuming physican the father of modern psycho-therapy. He appealed, like M. Corr& to the patient's sub-conscious mind to bring about the requisite restitutio ad integrum, but he held that hypnotism was the beet means of reaching this controlling power, considering no doubt that, as an American writer puts it, " a man cannot raise himself unaided by his own boot straps." Dr. Liebeault used to find, as do his followers, that only a slight degree of hypnosis is necessary in many cases to overcome conscious resistance and drive curative suggestions
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