autosuggestionistn.
/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)səˈdʒɛstʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌɔːtəʊsəˈdʒɛstʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊsə(ɡ)ˈdʒɛstʃənəst/, /ˌɑdoʊsə(ɡ)ˈdʒɛstʃənəst/, /ˌɔdəsə(ɡ)ˈdʒɛstʃənəst/, /ˌɑdəsə(ɡ)ˈdʒɛstʃənəst/ Now rare.
A person who induces or is susceptible to autosuggestion; (also) one who teaches or practises autosuggestion.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychological study of oneself > suggestion originating from self > [noun] > experiencer of
autosuggestionist1888
self-suggestera1901
1888 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 756 The majority of healthy children are, moreover, auto-suggestionists;..they create air-castles, in which they soon come to believe firmly as objective realities.
1889 C. A. Herter tr. H. Bernheim Suggestive Therapeutics ii. i. 213 With this sort of patient, auto-suggestion is stronger than a suggestion from some one else. They listen to their inner feelings, they call them up..; they are auto-suggestionists [Fr. auto-suggestionnistes].
1908 E. Worcester et al. Relig. & Med. 102 The auto-suggestionist must have the intellectual acquisitions in connection with the idea which he seeks to realize.
1936 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 84 269 The..patient suggested to himself the hemorrhagic stigmata, thus repeating the phenomenon of the famous stigmatized auto-suggestionist Louise Lateau.
1996 K. Segrave Baldness v. 68 For those..who didn't want to use potions and lotions, there was always Emile Coué, an ‘autosuggestionist’ from Nancy, France, whose method of autosuggestion..could cure baldness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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