autosuggestion

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The undertaker thereupon makes D�sir� sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself.

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Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion?

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The reappearance of these hairs after the grafting operation certainly cannot be ascribed to autosuggestion, to which certain critics have ascribed other phenomena that follow the greffes testiculaires.

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But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion.

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By monopolising the attention it keeps the conscious mind fully alert and so prevents one from attaining the measure of outcropping needful to initiate successfully an autosuggestion.

From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile