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Definition of Self-suggestion
1. Noun. A system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-suggestion
Literary usage of Self-suggestion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"self-suggestion AND RELIGION BY REV. THE HON. EDWARD LYTTELTON. ... Rather it
has become advisable to inquire (1) how far self- suggestion is a novelty; ..."
2. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"512 C. Influence of opium in adding force to self-suggestion: Case of Dr. ...
This method, however, seems to be merely a form of hysterical self-suggestion. ..."
3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"Influence of opium in adding force to self-suggestion: I i»e of Dr. Parsons. ...
self-suggestion is itself capricious and unintelligible ; although it is in ..."
4. On Vital Reserves: The Energies of Men. The Gospel of Relaxation by William James (1911)
"Probably most medical men would treat this individual's case as one of what it
is fashionable now to call by the name of "self- suggestion," or "expectant ..."
5. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research, Edmund Gurney (1889)
"The facts of self-suggestion adduced in this paper were not, ... The first subject
in whom I noticed self-suggestion was E. I had only hypnotised him once ..."
6. Man an Organic Community: Being an Exposition of the Law that the Human by John H. King (1893)
"The associative Mental phenomena in the Human Personality —self-suggestion.
THERE are continuously occurring opposite or contrary suggestions in all men's ..."
7. Human personality and its survival of bodily death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1906)
"These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most
... It is sufficient to point out that in order to make self-suggestion ..."
8. Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory by John Milne Bramwell (1906)
"(c) Self-Suggestion.—The conditions just referred to give rise to various forms
of self-suggestion antagonistic to the operator. Thus, the failure of other ..."
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