Assoc. Prof. F.E. Rybakov (Moscow). Value of hypnotism in therapy of mental disorders. S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurol. and Psychiatry, 1902, Vol. 1 and 2
- Issue: Vol 3, No 5-6 (1903)
- Pages: 279-280
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/kazanmedj/article/view/47646
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/kazmj47646
- ID: 47646
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Hypnosis in the therapy of mental disorders has not yet received the right of citizenship: it is not often ignored where it could have an extremely important meaning. The conditions hindering this are reduced to the following: 1) the possibility of harmful consequences of hypnotization, 2) the nature of the disease itself, which is unsuitable for the use of hypnosis, and h) the most mental illness. organ, which is expressed in the weakening of suggestibility and in the impossibility of lulling to sleep in the period of illness.