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ˌauto-suˈggestion
[auto-1.]
Suggestion originating from oneself; spec. in Psychol., the subconscious realization of an idea suggested to oneself for adoption. (Cf. self-suggestion 2.)
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxvii. 601 When the [hypnotic] subject obeys it is by reason of the ‘operator's suggestion’; when he proves refractory it is in consequence of an ‘auto-suggestion’ which he has made to himself. 1890Standard 12 Apr. 5/5 The greatest criminals..may be the responsible victims of a ‘suggestion’, or even of an ‘auto-suggestion’. 1894Trans. Obstet. Soc. XXXV. 246 Women may come to feel cravings by a process of auto⁓suggestion, especially in their first pregnancy. 1907J. Coates (title) Self-Reliance: Practical Studies in Personal Magnetism, Will-power and Success, through Self-help or Auto-Suggestion. 1921Punch CLX. 238/2 Though we cannot all of us be born at Newmarket, we can by auto-suggestion and psycho-analysis..persuade ourselves that we have been born there.
So ˌauto-suˈggestible a., capable of being influenced by auto-suggestion; ˌauto-suggestiˈbility, the capacity of being thus influenced; auto-suˈggestionist; auto-suˈggestive a., arising from or due to auto-suggestion.
1900Dorland Med. Dict., Autosuggestibility, a peculiar mental state with loss of will, in which suggestions become easy. 1907Mind XVI. 608 Hysterical persons are abnormally auto-suggestible. Ibid. 609 The auto-suggestibility preponderates in the severer cases. 1908E. Worcester et al. Relig. & Med. 102 The auto-suggestionist must have the intellectual acquisitions in connection with the idea which he seeks to realize. 1910Athenæum 5 Mar. 273/2 An hysterical girl under autosuggestive influences. 1926R. Fry Transformations 1 Honesty is..very difficult to come at, since in this matter we are all excessively auto⁓suggestible. |